Rural Pumpers Remain Optimistic, Franchise to Replace Aged Steel Tanks
Newfoundland’s wilderness pumpers promote the value of routine septic service and replacing failing steel tanks to customers who’ve never heard the message.
As the only septic service providers for about 150 miles in a remote area of far southwestern Newfoundland – a large island in Canada’s eastern Atlantic Provinces region – Gerard and Marg Gale face an array of challenges.For starters, consider fuel prices, which have topped $5 a gallon for years. Then throw in customers that are more than 100 miles away from Gale’s Septic Cleaning Ltd., the business the couple started in 1993 in the small town of South Branch … a host of neglected septic tanks in the company’s service area that haven’t been cleaned for decades, if ever
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