Editorial Articles

After one semester of college and a summer job working for a septic company, Paul Lawrence knew he wouldn’t be going back...

American Tank completes acquisition of Lely Tank & Waste Solutions American Tank announced the completion of its acquisition of Lely Tank & Waste Solutions....

SJE Rhombus EZ Series In-Site Bluetooth control panels Redesigned EZ Series In-Site CL data logging control panels from SJE Rhombus are available in simplex and...

B500 Max Pak makes a play to convince pumpers to switch to blower technologyTo satisfy market demands in the wastewater industry, National Vacuum Equipment...

Tiger Grease and Septic, Woodland Park, New JerseyGary Lucchesi and Anthony Laguera added an orange and black Freightliner M2 with a 2,300-gallon...

Name and title or job description: Tom Schimelfenig, ownerBusiness name and location: Tom Schimelfenig Excavating, Bowdon, North DakotaServices we offer: I do...

I receive quite a few questions about using soil fill to overcome site limitations. Sometimes these questions come before fill is used, but...

Employers may not like to pay overtime, but not abiding by state and federal rules can land them in hot water. It...

It took a decade, but the Florida Legislature has passed a bill that makes progress on protecting the state’s waters and keeps...

Pipe Lining Supply adds a technical representative Pipe Lining Supply hired Steve Maszczak for the technical representative position serving the Northeastern U.S. He has...

ScreencO Systems Trash Master 400 Auto Screen The Trash Master 400 Auto Screen from ScreencO Systems uses gravity to separate the trash from the flow stream...

Excessive discharge of solids can be disastrous for a drainfield. Those solids can cause it to plug and lose efficiency in treatment...

Torti Services Inc., Chepachet, Rhode Island Larry Torti added a Dupont white and gunmetal gray 2018 Kenworth T800 carrying a 4,600-gallon steel Imperial...

Name and title or job description: Kurt Leichty, vice president of Leichty & Son Construction and president of Leison PumpingBusiness name and...

As reported previously in Pumper, an ongoing study is being conducted in southwestern Wisconsin to test private wells for evidence of contamination....

Pumpers face dangerous situations every day, working around heavy machinery, infectious waste, and probably one of the most serious risks — potential...

POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT BLOWERS Gardner Denver Robuschi Tri-Flow 825The Gardner Denver Robuschi Tri-Flow 825 blower for combination sewer jetter trucks achieves 19 inches Hg...

The team is exhausted. They’re burned out, and I am too. I don’t know if we can recover. We’ve been working at...

Your crew has been facing wall-to-wall service runs — with a few emergency calls thrown in just to keep the pumping business...