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The Robert B. Our Co. in Harwich, Massachusetts, has nearly two dozen pieces of site preparation and earthmoving equipment used in the construction...

For most of us, winter is a time to reset and plan for the year ahead. Business never really stops, but the...

Tim Frank Septic Tank Cleaning services some 2,500 residential tanks per year, plus commercial waste facilities, handling about 3 million gallons of...

It happened. Again.Maybe a shared tool went missing. Maybe someone on your team dropped the ball and didn’t show up to a...

How do you know when it’s the right time to start a septic pumping company? While business plans and careful market analysis...

Construction and public works crews need to know where gas lines are before digging, drilling, pile driving, bulldozing or performing any other...

Every once in a while, we see news reports about people disposing of their own sewage in some rather unsuitable places. This...

Removing pathogens is the most critical part of wastewater treatment. Pathogens are organisms that cause disease; they include viruses, protozoa and bacteria....

Trench collapse (or cave-in) and caught-in (or caught-between) incidents occur too often. In 2014, 39 workers perished in caught-in incidents. Between 2000...

Conventional soil treatment areas are designed to have an aerobic environment for the removal of organic material (BOD) and pathogens. This aerobic...

General Pipe Cleaners’ award-winning Gen-Eye Micro-Scope compact inspection tool offers outstanding versatility when inspecting small drainlines and hard-to-reach places like duct work,...

Cameras are everywhere these days. Jim Reisinger, owner of R & R Sanitation in St. Louis, Missouri, has them in his office and his...

Communication turns a group of workers into an organized crew. Ever since our cave-dwelling ancestors started using hand signals and birdcalls to...

Bio-Microbics wins i-NOVO award Bio-Microbics announced it won the DirectIndustry 2017 i-NOVO Award for its BioBarrier GWMBR Greywater Treatment System. It was voted...

Last year I was manning a booth at an industry trade show when I saw an attendee frantically circling the General Pipe Cleaners Speedrooter...

When you don’t get what you want, what do you do? You make it yourself. That’s what Todd Boomhower, president of Boomhower...

In the first part of this series, I mentioned five mega megaprojects with budgets in the $10 billion to $20 billion range....

On Jan. 1, new regulations took effect in Arizona that expand the use of reclaimed water to meet various demands including, under...

Southwest Medical Center in Lawton, Oklahoma, faced a serious problem. One of the facility’s kitchens experienced almost daily drain line stoppages. And the...