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January 2010 Table of Contents

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Features

  • 4Reading Between the Lines: Great Expectations
    Emerging from a tough economic period, new pumpers offer the optimism to inspire all of us to loftier goals in 2010
  • 14Building the Business: Marketing is Job One
    The highest quality septic service standards and using the best tools in the business won’t be enough if you can’t sell, sell, sell
  • 18Rules and Regs: Massachusetts Residents Look For Onsite Alternative to “Big Pipe”
    Chatham Concerned Taxpayers sponsored a meeting with the intent of finding a wastewater solution that is less expensive than the $300 million sewer system and treatment plant upgrade currently being planned for the community in Massachusetts Cape Cod.
  • 22Cover Story: Hit the Ground Running
    With excavation and landscaping down to a science, Montana’s TLC Septic Services goes all in with $300,000 in vacuum trucks for its new pumping division
  • 32Expo Preview: Better Ways
    Education Day seminars at the 2010 Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International focus on decentralized systems, septic tanks, ATUs, certification, and regulatory compliance
  • 36Profile: Living the Dream
    How an entrepreneurial itch turned into a startup septic service business for New York’s Ronnie Daniels
  • 44Expo Preview: An Expo Encore
    On Feb. 27, country favorites from past Saturday Evening Jams will hit the stage to celebrate the Pumper & Cleaner Expo’s 30th year
  • 86Overheard Online: Oops! Damage on the Job
    Who should foot the bill when a worn septic system component breaks while I’m servicing a tank?

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