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Editorial
Ohio to Update Onsite Regulations for First Time in 35 Years
In January the Ohio Department of Health released its 2013 report on failures in household sewage treatment systems. On the surface the...
Editorial
6 States Draft Legislation Affecting Onsite System Installations & Maintenance
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is revising the Technical Guidance Manual for builders and septic system installers. The process started in...
Online Exclusives
How To Combat the Skilled Talent Shortage
We’re at the start of a new talent war. Ask any employer who is trying to recruit for any skilled trade and...
Editorial
Iowa County Grapples with Poor Septic Inspection Compliance
About 1,000 people in Muscatine County can expect to hear from zoning officials this year because they are not having their septic...
Editorial
National Association of Wastewater Technicians to Host 6th Annual Waste Treatment Symposium
The National Association of Wastewater Technicians is hosting the 6th Waste Treatment Symposium Sept. 25-26 at James Penner’s AA Septic Service &...
Editorial
Association News - August 2013
MISSOURINew association board members named
Paul Ganey, Michael Bowers, and Rick Helms were elected to the Missouri Smallflows Organization board of directors at...
Online Exclusives
Former PSAI Executive Director, Assistant Face Multiple Felony Charges
William F. Carroll, former executive director of the Portable Sanitation Association International, and a fired association assistant face multiple felony charges of...
Blogs
Drivers beware: Remember your liquid load
In the latest of several septic service truck crash photos posted by various media this summer, the Alaska Dispatch put this one...
Editorial
Michigan Pumpers Discuss Keys to Business Longevity After 75 Years in the Industry
In the beginning, pumping outhouses and installing homemade septic tanks supported Morris DeJonghe’s family in the village of Britton, Mich. Begun in...
Editorial
Louisiana Installer & System Inspector Indicted in $50,000 Bribery Case
A former septic tank installer and a former state inspector in Louisiana are under indictment in federal court in a bribery case....
Editorial
Over 150 Business Owners Attend 6th Waste Treatment System Symposium
If one of the following scenarios describes something that has gone on with your business in the past year, you need to...
Online Exclusives
Septic System Education Grows Business
Two decades ago when I was new to the septic pumping business, I knew I wanted to grow the company. I just...
Online Exclusives
GOWA Seeks Input From Pumpers on Septage Disposal
Septage disposal is a major problem in Georgia, and the Georgia Onsite Wastewater Association (GOWA) wants to help local pumpers with this...
Editorial
Florida Legislators Do Away With 5-Year Mandatory Tank Inspections, Pumpers Lobby for Reinstatement
The repeal of a law in Florida requiring septic tank inspections every five years has implications for groundwater quality in the Sunshine...
Editorial
Court Says Environmental Protection Agency Went too Far With Clean Water Act Enforcement in Virginia
Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., found the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guilty of exceeding its authority to enforce the Clean Water...
Editorial
NAWT System Design Principle Course Enlightens Pumpers Before Expo
Anew two-day National Association of Wastewater Technicians course covering the principles of onsite system design was conducted at Indiana’s Camp Camby before...




