What’s in a name? Quite a bit in the case of Zuech’s Environmental Services, based in Franklinville, New York — and formerly known as just Zuech’s Septic Service.
That’s what the late Fred Zuech named the company when he established it in 1955, and the straightforward, no-nonsense moniker served the company well for decades. But around 2005, Fritz Zuech — Fred Zuech’s son, who bought the company in the late 1980s — changed the name to reflect the company’s wider breadth of services, which had expanded well beyond just pumping septic tanks.
Now Fritz Zuech’s sons, Eric and Vinnie Zuech, are third-generation
