Editorial Articles

Brown’s Septic Service Inc. has managed to overcome shaky beginnings, a down economy and a rapidly evolving market by keeping a constant...

A new family-friendly restroom from PolyPortables Inc. helps portable restroom operators respond to requests for units large enough to accommodate both kids...

Question:I installed a drop box system in good soil for a family who moved from the city to a new home in...

The Ontario, Canada, Ministry of the Environment is enforcing the use of a Municipality Responsibility Agreement, which stops the development or expansion...

Effective April 1, legislation passed by the Rhode Island General Assembly requires municipal treatment plants to charge an extra $1 per 100...

Richard Davis feels like he’s swimming upstream a lot of the time, fighting a bad economy, extensive regulation and less-than-scrupulous contractors. But...

Pumpers who come across problems when servicing their customers’ septic tanks have many options to remedy these situations. The repertoire of choices...

Pumper averts a dangerous situationComment:Yesterday I went to pump a septic tank in the country. Pulling into the driveway, I noticed the...

Our third annual Waste Treatment Symposium, Sept. 10-11, in Eureka, Mo., attracted 100 pumpers from as far away as Alaska, Florida and...

The warnings are everywhere: Inflation is back. “Get used to high prices,” is the downer headline of the day on CNN. The...

Kevin Atkins’ deft handling of a vacuum truck suction hose has earned the Roto-Rooter of Columbus, Ohio, excavator and pumper praise from...

Who’s afraid of the World Wide Web? Actually, many people over 30 who don’t use a computer in their daily job may...

A letter came in the mail the other day from a Pumper reader (who preferred not to be named), exasperated over the...

Tim Kettler likes to tell folks on the campaign trail that he prepared for a career in politics for 22 years, because...

A friend of mine calls it the Three Foot Rule. It means that when he’s at a trade show, if you come...

Lenzyme Installs Solar Heating Panels Lenzyme, manufacturer of septic tank treatment products, has installed a solar hot water heating system at its...

The Bio-Box biodiesel fuel factory from Pacific Natural Energy Corp. enables pumpers to economically make fuel from things they’d normally pay to...

Question:I have occasionally had problems with homeowners complaining about getting odors now and then caused by their septic system. I have read...

A Virginia law requiring mandatory maintenance for all alternative onsite systems goes into effect July 1, 2009. According to K.R. “Trapper” Davis...