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Occasionally property owners complain about odors from their onsite sewage treatment system. There are several locations within an onsite system where odor...

New vacuum trucks are perhaps the most visible symbol of Darin Gross’ efforts to refresh Turner Sanitation, a Lake Orion, Michigan, septic...

Do you accept Bitcoin? Probably not. Few septic services companies take groundbreaking forms of currency, and that’s OK. However, customers do expect various payment options. If...

Polyvinyl chloride is the most common pipe material used in onsite wastewater treatment systems. PVC pipe manufacturers must follow accepted standards for...

How long have you been in business? Twenty years? Perhaps 40 years or more? Apparently, you’re doing something right then.Think back to...

Across the nation, COVID-19 vaccinations are being distributed slowly but surely, with the promise of wider vaccine availability in the months to...

Working in southwest Delaware, McMullen Septic Service encounters home sites that require more than conventional rock-and-pipe onsite wastewater treatment systems. Co-owner Brian McMullen...

Piping is the conduit that collects wastewater from the source and conveys wastewater from one component to another. Piping transmits wastewater through...

Jim Curoso may be the sole owner of Curoso Plumbing in Santa Rosa, California. But for several years after he took ownership...

Washed rock is used as distribution media in soil treatment area, media filters and in interceptor drains. It is obtained from quarries...

Business insurance is a complicated subject for even veteran business owners. Its complexity gets exacerbated because we don’t trade in it every...

As a new year dawns, many small-business owners are making plans, adjusting strategies and resolving to be as productive and as efficient...

When brothers Bruce and Michael Bopst started in the septic business 30 years ago in Eldersburg, Maryland, marketing consisted of printing flyers...

Unless the site conditions require over-excavation, it should be avoided as natural soil typically provides the most stable base for system components....

Attachments transform skid-steer loaders into specialized tools that perform a multitude of tasks faster and more profitably. But what should you look for when...

Unstuck your toilet twice today, Your plunger’s crying, “Dude, no way!”Make the call, we’ll bring our truck,And clear your tank, of all the...

If you rely on excavators for some of the work that your company takes on, you know that they have been, and...

As the co-owner of Lutz Plumbing in Shawnee, Kansas, Amber Lutz-Sewell has one official business partner: her father, Jim Lutz. But she...

The Onsite Sewage Treatment Program (OSTP) at the University of Minnesota Water Resources Center conducted a brief study to understand more about...