Joe Williams embraces new disposal rules and works with regulators to advance the liquid waste industry

With a sterling reputation and quality control in the balance, Texas pumpers Brad and Kim Heath scaled back their business and run a hands-on operation

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The Virginia Environmental Protection Agency-approved Watershed Implementation Plan includes nitrogen-reducing onsite systems and pumping of septic tanks every five years.

Let me tell you a story. In the early 1980s, I was on a steering committee that was trying to decide what to do with the septage produced by escalating rural development. The conclusion was more land application. Then, as now, when people heard that term, they envisioned the contents of their toilet dumped on agricultural fields. The Pennsylvania legislature responded by passing stringent land application regulations.