Entries Tagged Customer Education

Welcome to the third annual SepticSmart Week, an outreach initiative supported by the EPA, which runs Sept. 21-25. The goal of SepticSmart...

QUESTION: Why care about something like plastic microbeads?ANSWER: The starting point in any discussion about the life span and effectiveness of individual...

QUESTION: What do I need to do to maintain my sewage lagoon system?ANSWER: A few months ago, a visitor to the Pumper...

As of yesterday, I have worked on Pumper magazine for two years. In those two years, I’ve read several stories about adults,...

A group of five associations representing the water sector and the nonwoven fabrics industry have announced that they are working collaboratively on...

QUESTIONWhat should new homeowners request for an inspection?ANSWERLast summer I participated in a webinar sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about...

QUESTION: What do you tell a first-time homeowner?ANSWER: As I travel around the country conducting onsite workshops for professionals, one common theme...

New Mexico is one of the few states with two trade organizations representing the onsite wastewater industry. The Professional Onsite Wastewater Reuse...

If there is one thing onsite professionals should do, it’s to educate people about how protecting their septic system investment helps the...

Where there are unsewered homes, there are inevitably failing onsite systems. In an effort to tackle the outrageous number of failing systems...

There’s no doubt that the Internet is becoming a leading source of information. People are “Googling” and “tweeting.” If neither of those...

The Ebola virus has now hit a few Americans, and concern is spreading among citizens. As onsite wastewater and septic pumping professionals,...

I was sifting through the piles of junk emails clogging my Pumper mailbox the other day and I clicked to flush away...

The U.S. EPA’s 2nd Annual SepticSmart Week (Sept. 22-26) is right around the corner. Are you participating in this national septic awareness...