Onsite Systems

Voters in Talladega County, Alabama, decisively say septage may not be spread on land in the county. Although the county still had...

Many of the media filters used in today’s wastewater industry use proprietary technology or components and come from the manufacturer as pre-assembled...

Editor’s note: This article features a Septic System Answer Man column that first ran in Pumper magazine nearly a decade ago, in December...

In August 2020, the University of Minnesota’s Onsite Sewage Treatment Program (OSTP) conducted a brief follow-up study of four commonly purchased recreational...

Five years after contaminated water in Flint became a national news story, Michigan’s governor announced a huge infrastructure bill that addresses water...

Electrical shock is a potential hazard to onsite wastewater treatment system professionals. Written procedures for dealing with electrical hazards must be part...

Your tailgate safety meetings probably focus mainly on the major hazards involved with septic installation work like operating heavy equipment and trench...

A drip dispersal system is a small-diameter pressurized effluent distribution system that can deliver small, precise doses of effluent to the soil...

A proposal to increase residential development in the Dolores River Valley has residents of Montezuma County, Colorado, concerned about water quality and...

Laser levels have become an important tool to set elevations during construction of septic systems. They are easy to use, and only...

Taking wastewater samples from a septic system is an important task regularly performed by service providers, operators and maintainers along with designers...

There are countless lists of plants suggested for septic fields. This is not a comprehensive list, just a list of commonly used...

There are potentially two or three compartments of an ATU that will need cleaning at some point. With some units these compartments...

The University of Minnesota’s Onsite Sewage Treatment Program did an assessment of septic systems at two state parks, both owned and managed...

In the days of COVID-19 restrictions, many of us are in need of a haircut. Barbers and beauty salons that are smaller...

An effluent screen requires regular maintenance and must be periodically checked. The need to clean a screen should not be considered an...

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