A decade ago, René Goulet was at the start of a scientific experiment at his pumping business, Goulet Septic Pumping & Design, in Green Valley, Ontario.
For years he and other pumpers had been land-spreading septage, but Goulet worried that would end as Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment began to add regulations. Goulet wanted to be ahead of regulators, so he joined Chris Kinsley, now an engineering professor at the University of Ottawa, in a project to test the effectiveness of reed beds to treat septage.NATURAL FILTERSA pair of engineered reed beds were built on Goulet’s farm, where his business is
