Maznek Septic Service does a brisk business in septic system evaluations for home sales. Both owner Larry Maznek and team member Trace...
Entries Tagged Inspection Camera
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Opportunity Knocks as More Customers Seek Detailed Septic Inspections
Septic system inspections don’t contribute much to the annual revenue at Ken Allen’s Septic in Presque Isle, Maine. But owner Caston Lovely...
Editorial
Commonwealth Waste Solutions Is a Successful Second Act for This Driven Virginia Pumper
The fact that Jason Muzzy has started not one, but two successful septic pumping businesses in the last 19 years is a...
Editorial
Camera and Sonde Locator Used to Trace Waterlines
Problem: Saltillo Water in Mexico has 24-inch plastic waterlines, which were buried with no tracer wire. The utility was not able to...
Editorial
QuickZoom III from CUES promoted for septic tank inspections
A camera can offer an accurate and efficient diagnosis of a septic tank issue, which in turn can reduce on-site time requirements...
Editorial
They Started Building New Septic Systems; Decades Later They Are Pumping and Ungrading Them
A few years after Dirk Feikema bought Wesley Feikema & Son Sanitation Services from his father in 2006, he changed the name...
CUES QuickZoom III video inspection pole camera
The QuickZoom III from CUES is a lightweight, portable, wireless digital video inspection pole camera that can be operated by one person....
Editorial
Bill Tatro III Learns That Diversification Is the Key to Living the High Life
Imagine you’re a pumper in a territory with long winters and a short work season, a small permanent population that limits the...
Online Exclusives
Why Cameras and Smoke Testers Are Crucial Diagnostic Tools
In his more than 55 years running O’Fallon (Missouri) Sewer Service, Leonard Earnest has seen quite a few technological changes.
He says the...
Editorial
For More Than 60 Years, the Zuech Family Has Been Ready to Work
What’s in a name? Quite a bit in the case of Zuech’s Environmental Services, based in Franklinville, New York — and formerly...
Editorial
A Quality Crew and an Effective Disposal Plan, an Ohio Family Pumping Company Is Poised for Growth
If you buy a race car that has been a winner on the circuit, you don’t tear the engine apart. You upgrade...
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Pumpers on Cape Cod Must Adapt to New Technologies, Expansion of the Big Pipe
The Cape Cod peninsula in Massachusetts has seen tremendous changes since the 1950s when Robert Our Sr. worked as a commercial fisherman...
Editorial
Follow the Golden Rule With Customers
Name and title or job description: Andrew Andriola, president/sales/service tech
Business name and location: Andriola’s Cesspool Service, Holbrook, New York
Age: 61
Years in the...
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How to Avoid Expensive Inspection Camera Repairs
So picture this: You’re kneeling in wet grass next to a clean-out, shoving your Gen-Eye pipe inspection system slowly down into the...




















