Editorial Articles

With shifting costs and new options for coverage, it’s high time to check if your wastewater company has adequate protection.

Strong homeowner education is crucial to safe groundwater in a state with access to few municipal treatment plants and a tradition and topography that favors decentralized treatment.

The Answer Man says professional responsibility should prompt pumpers to refuse requests to clean a septic tank through a 4-inch pipe.

Indiana’s Steven Shankster counts on his wastewater trade association and his right-hand man to better serve customers and enjoy business ownership.

An entrepreneurial Ohio pumper believes the expensive tools of the trade should be versatile enough to help out with multiple services for his customers.

As NAWT hands out honors to its members, this is a good time to remind pumpers they’re all winners when they band together in a trade association.

Longtime Texas pumping company All Pro Septic boosts profit margins, builds a stable future through cost-cutting land-spreading program.

If you want happy and productive workers, avoid these sometimes trite, oftentimes dismissive phrases and take a more direct approach to communication.

Details of an exit plan for your small business should be worked out when you open the doors … or even earlier.

Trucker Peter Noonan has developed a transport specialty using large tankers to deliver septic waste on behalf of pumpers.

New concrete mixes and component design changes may be keys to solving the issues caused by microbially induced corrosion.