Editorial Articles

The Colorado Professionals in Onsite Wastewater (CPOW) organization is now 10 years old, tracing its origins to when a small group of...

Leaders inspire people to do amazing things – the type of things their followers would not do on their own. With leadership,...

When Maxwell and Olen McCutcheon started pumping septic tanks and hauling steel-mill waste in 1947 in Pennsylvania, they owned just one small...

Fruitland Vacuum Pumps are known for their iconic blue exterior, but another color made waves at the company’s Pumper & Cleaner Environmental...

Pumpers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska don’t have a local disposal site for septage. Every day, they have to ship 50,000...

Just because a company enjoys the continuity of three generations of family ownership over 60 years doesn’t mean it resists adapting to...

Tight Quarters: Slide-In Unit PicksSqueeze into tight spaces and hard-to-maneuver job sites with compact, lightweight slide-in or bolt-on vacuum units. Bonus? Rigs...

I was sifting through the piles of junk emails clogging my Pumper mailbox the other day and I clicked to flush away...

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The climate-controlled portable restroom trailer from Rugged Restrooms is made to withstand the harsh environment of North Dakota’s Bakken oilfields, where wind...

Multi-frequency alarms address noise pollutionProblem: Baker Rock Resources, an asphalt and aggregate business based in Beaverton, Ore., fields many projects from the...

Join us for the two days before the 2015 Water & Wastewater Equipment, Treatment & Transport Show – Saturday and Sunday, Feb....

Owner Bryce Harding runs this red 2013 International WorkStar 7400 with a 5,000-gallon aluminum tank and NVE Challenger 500 cfm vacuum pump...

As a charter member, Executive Director Tim Taylor has a wealth of knowledge about the Texas On-Site Wastewater Association (TOWA). Taylor helped...

Homeowners hear about all of the new onsite products and technologies that have come online over the last decade and they naturally...

Several years ago, John Eldredge Sr., the owner of Eldredge Equipment Services, and his son, John Jr., were growing increasingly frustrated with...

For thousands of years they have tracked game for humans. Now the humans have something new. Dogs still track with those incredible...

How soon should you start thinking about retirement?It’s never too soon – even if yesterday was your very first day on the...