Pumping and portable sanitation stories have been popping up a lot in the news recently. That can be a cause for either cheers or jeers. Here are my quick takes on recent headlines involving the wastewater industry:
We’ll keep our septic systems, thank you!
In Lucas County (Toledo), Ohio, residents in a rare area still utilizing septic systems are saying “no thanks” to an offer to extend the municipal sewer through their neighborhood. Septic systems serve only 7 percent of county homes, and county commissioners at first approved the sewer extension for 30 homes but then backed down when a majority of
