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Entries Tagged California
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Weekly Flush: Septic Pumper Fires Back at Sheriff's Accusations of Illegal Operation
There’s been an interesting development in an article Pumper.com first shared back in March about a local sheriff’s office that had received...
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Rules and Regs: New York Residents See Result of Septic Replacement Program
Year after year, organizations fund grant programs to improve water quality by helping people repair or replace failing onsite systems, and a...
Editorial
Encouraging Reconstruction After Wildfires
It’s difficult to find a silver lining in the wildfires that swept through Sonoma County, California, last fall. Some 250 fires burned...
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How to Find Tanks on the Most Challenging Properties
When Zack Ray worked for a septic system service company in Texas, he noted that most customers’ tanks had risers. Now, as...
Editorial
He Went From Septic Inspector to Reality TV Star
It wasn’t too many years ago that Brett Tutor was apprenticing for his grandfather Chet Tutor’s home inspection company, a teenager hand-digging...
Editorial
This California Pumper’s Career Change Is a Hole-in-One
While working as a golf course pro in Colorado and Texas, Zack Ray never dreamed he would one day own a septic...
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Rules & Regs: Jacksonville Had Longstanding Problem With Septic Lids, Investigators Say
An investigator’s report shows the Florida septic tank where a small boy died last year was not secured as it should have...
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Weekly Flush: Pumper in Trouble for Dumping in Secret Backyard Sewer Pipe
Ever get the urge to install a secret pipe in your backyard that connects to the city sewer so you don’t have...
Editorial
Nancy Gump and Her Team at Andy Gump Temporary Site Services Build on a Family Legacy
At Andy Gump Temporary Site Services in California, everything has changed, yet nothing has changed in the past year since the patriarch...
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Innovative Service to 1984 Olympics Moves Andy Gump Inc. Forward
Rising to meet customers’ needs has been a priority of Andy Gump Inc. in Santa Clarita, California, since Massena “Andy” Gump bought...
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Weekly Flush: Septic System Fails Under Ontario Woman's Dining Room
When you’re shopping for homes, pay special attention to the property’s wastewater system. That’s a lesson Janet St-Pierre of Dunbar, Ontario, learned...
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Rules and Regs: Pumper Arrested for History of Illegal Dumping
Santa Rosa, California, police arrested a man on suspicion of illegally dumping waste from septic tanks.
Carlos Chavez, 63, of Petaluma is suspected...
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Imperial Industries Builds Pumper’s 2017 Classy Truck of the Year
Henry Damm of Big Bore Drilling in Fresno, California, wasn’t in the market for a new truck until he needed a replacement truck after...

















