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Use the Environmental Protection Agency materials to promote your company and educate homeowners during SepticSmart Week and beyond

Sonetics wireless headsets allow your team to hold a natural conversation in a loud work zone while wearing hearing protection, and still safely hear their surroundings

It's not all pumping septics. Maximize your success by building professional relationships inside and outside the septic services industry.

Remembering these simple traits of great leadership can keep your crew happier and working toward your most important business goals

After noticing on his excavation jobs that customers weren't maintaining their septic systems, Jason Turcotte decided he had a solid market for an add-on business in septic services

High-value properties with extensive landscaping call for compact tracked excavators

It may not be a primary source of income, but installing rainwater systems can be a beneficial added service in water-poor areas

Explore these options for earning some dollars on your operating assets

In other recent septic-related news, a Sierra Green reader asks an environmental expert whether or not she should flush dog waste into a septic system

She'd been missing for a few days before her daughter found her alive and responsive in the front-yard septic tank

As younger workers join your business, you may have to modernize the way you give feedback and offer pay raises

Tell your customers to avoid these cleaning products to keep their onsite system working

Also in this month's regulations update, the state of New Hampshire adopted a rule requiring local landfills and water/wastewater plants to test for and treat for four per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)

What to look for when the pump starts but does not deliver any effluent

Staying busy is no problem for this Ontario pumper, but finding enough help to keep up with everything is still a struggle