It’s more fun to report good news, but sometimes journalists — even trade publication editors — unfortunately have to dwell on bad news. In this instance, I hope that discussing the tragic death of children will somehow help bring a stop to a distressing pattern of unsecured septic tank lids in the United States.
The first time I wrote in Pumper about a young child falling into a septic tank and drowning was in April 2007. I will never forget about Loic J.M. Rogers, a 3-year-old Montana boy who died after he stepped on a plastic lid, flipping it, and fell to
