Editorial Articles

If you extend credit to your customers, sooner or later you’ll have trouble collecting unpaid bills. Your first goal, of course, is...

A disorganized industry, legislative and regulatory ignorance/inertia, public misconceptions, and a bias against the onsite/decentralized wastewater industry from competing interests have led...

Question: I have a 1,000-gallon tank on my truck, but with the front primary inlet (with stainless steel ball) it doesn’t hold any...

Honda Introduces GX Engine Line Single-cylinder, horizontal-shaft GX120, GX160 and GX200 model engines from Honda Power Equipment are designed for generators, water pumps...

Summit Reminders Plus software from Ritam Technologies LP provides repetitive-service businesses, such as septic tank pumpers, the tools to more easily track...

Surviving the wild economic ride and choppy real estate market of the past few years would be a huge challenge for any...

From the start of his new septic service company in the foothills of California’s High Sierras in 2003, Doug Urke saw a...

Helping her then-husband study for his medical exams sparked Dawn Long’s interest in things scientific and channeled her natural curiosity into the...

The Virginia Environmental Protection Agency-approved Watershed Implementation Plan includes nitrogen-reducing onsite systems and pumping of septic tanks every five years. Implementation would...

Question: In my 10 years of experience, the scum layer in the septic tank is thickest at the inlet end and tapers off,...

CANADA: New Programs Initiated Saskatchewan Health asked the Western Canada Onsite Wastewater Management Association to edit the Onsite Wastewater Practitioner training program for...

A pair of wastewater professionals who for many years have worked on behalf of industry causes and advancement were honored by COLE...

In times of higher unemployment, people are out there looking to enter the workforce. But you don’t want to hire just any...

Owner Mike Fimple upgraded his vacuum service truck to this 2002 Freightliner FL70 built out for Fimple in 2008 by Michigan Vacuum...

The 31st Annual Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International closed a four-year run in Louisville with 3,644 companies, cities and utilities represented...

Vac-Con Celebrates 25th Anniversary Vac-Con, manufacturer of combination sewer cleaning vacuum trucks, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2011. Beginning with five employees in...

To be competitive in today’s marketplace, you have to do one thing: Serve customers ten times faster than you do now. “What?”...

Let me tell you a story. In the early 1980s, I was on a steering committee that was trying to decide what...

Question: I have a 1,500-gallon tank with a 230 cfm free air, and 200 cfm at 15 inches Hg pump; I want to...