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Adding new services takes the right equipment, workers who know how to use it, and market demand. Hit on all three and you can find success.

Leister took over an older septic service company and is modernizing it with high technology, Google marketing and youthful energy.

Choose your septage or grease waste stabilization material carefully and then follow appropriate safety procedures to prepare loads for land application or disposal at a the treatment plant.

Straight diesel and gasoline engines are no longer the only way to go for your fleet of trucks. But are they still the smartest answer?

Iowa’s Rob Brown has some interesting stories to tell about his customers, his favorite equipment, and his hopes for a more professional industry.

Tim Wheeler added this 2000 Sterling LT9500 five years ago and rebuilt it in-house, adding a 5,000-gallon steel tank built by Wiseman Brothers…

Gregory Vanscoy added this black Ford F-750 with a 1,600-gallon steel tank and NVE 607P-FS Challenger pump built out by Lely Tank & Waste Solutions…

It’s no secret that disposal costs continue to increase. That has left many pumpers looking for alternatives, including installing large…

The SJE-Rhombus NEX Series control panel product line includes single-phase duplex models designed to alternately control two 120-, 208- or…

Problem: Clear River Environmental, a septic, cesspool, and sewer cleaning company based in Ronkonkoma, New York, has 16 field technicians and has…

Housing sales are rising all over. Now is your chance to help would-be homeowners and build a new profit center.

King’s Sanitary Service traded portable restrooms for a combination truck in search of profitable municipal and hydroexcavation work in northeast Ohio communities

Owner Mike Flaherty likes to say three things haven’t changed about his family’s company, Advanced Pollution Control (APC) Corp., since it was…

Millennials are driving increased use of texting on the job. How you handle this communication tool can determine if it’s a positive or a negative development.

In its early steps in rewriting the Waters of the U.S. Rule, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently sent letters to several governors…

There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to managing expenses and cash flow.

Nature’s nitrogen removal solution may provide an important tool at the end of the onsite treatment train.

With new people entering the onsite industry all the time, we frequently need to highlight obsolete product technologies they may run into.

Rob Ratta enjoys running older rigs for installing and pumping work, and thinks recruiting good workers is the biggest challenging facing the wastewater industry.

Even smaller wastewater companies should try to train a point person to oversee safety for the good of employees and to land more work.