Editorial Articles

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...

Good customer service is half the battle to building a successful business. It’s an obvious point, but one that can’t be repeated...

When Mike Ink took the family pumping business over from his father, Robert, in 2005, he decided to refurbish the company’s 1988...

The Omnibus control system for Vac-Con combination and Xcavator (hydroexcavating) machines puts all vacuum and water system functions on a joystick-style controller...

Question:You mention using clean sand in a lot of your columns. What do you mean when you say “clean sand?” I thought...

Michigan’s Grand Traverse County Board of Public Works voted to conduct an independent investigation of its troubled $8 million septage plant to...

As states amend septic codes, some are adding language requiring a certificate of onsite system evaluation before properties transfer. The response to...