Editorial Articles

Question:I have a customer with an RV park feeding a 15,000-gallon septic tank. The smell from this system is terrible. Over the...

Our fourth annual Waste Treatment Symposium, Oct. 9-10, in Orlando, Fla., attracted 120 folks from as far away as Oregon, California, and...

If your business terminates an employee, that person may be entitled to unemployment benefits. Each state has its own program and rules,...

While having dinner with my parents, my dad excused himself to say hello to a former colleague. As he left the table,...

The days of a pump-and-run business strategy are over for the majority of septic service contractors. Profit- and customer service-minded pumpers are...

When Joe Hall was a 25-year-old plant manager at a machine shop south of Detroit, he returned home one day and made...

A neatly uniformed service technician emerges from a sparkling clean, late-model truck that just pulled up to a customer’s home. In an...

Texas Pumper Dies in Crash Longtime pumper Larry Goodwill, owner of Larry’s Septic Tank Services in Bastrop, Texas, was killed in a...

The hands-free spigot from PolyPortables Inc. enables field workers to wash their hands without transferring germs and helps customers comply with more...

With General Motors backing out of the medium-duty truck business, Sterling no longer an active brand and Isuzu’s F-Series on hold, pumpers...

Question:Our state is finally in the process of developing a code for septic systems. They have some wild ideas, and they aren’t...

Changes to the state’s septic system rules require counties to implement their own ordinances by February 2010. Otter Tail County is one...

A new Iowa law that took effect in July requires systems to be inspected, pumped, and brought up to modern standards when...

Stories about small businesses today can sometimes focus more on hardship than health. Jim Hodge’s is one of the refreshing “good” stories....

The labor market has loosened up considerably in the past year with the economic recession. Though this particular facet of the downturn...

How do I clean up this mess?Question:A driver pumped a septic tank today that apparently had some kind of foaming agent in...

NAWT IN LOUISVILLEWith another successful Waste Treatment Symposium behind us, it’s time to draw a bead on the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental...

Your business was running pretty smoothly — sales growing, and profits growing, too. Then the credit crunch hit, someone said the R-word,...

If you’ve ever been on the local TV news as an environmental health expert, or been interviewed on the proper maintenance of...