The Gen-Eye Hot-Spot pipe locator from General Pipe Cleaners makes locating easier than ever. Its total field antenna array and on-screen icons...
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Looking for Something? Take the Guesswork Out of Septic System Inspections
Diagnosing septic tank problems on some of the older properties in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, is tricky work. And anything that takes the guesswork...
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How Locators Save BDK Septic Service Time and Money
The tool that Benny Karnes likes best is the one that helps him do jobs no one else can complete. It’s his...
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Following a Midcareer Course Correction, a California Businessman Found Success in the Wastewater Industry
In 1998 Martin Ruiz knew nothing about septic systems and never imagined he’d one day own a company in the wastewater industry....
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Save Time Hunting for Hidden Tanks With a Flushable Locator
When Martin Ruiz got started in his septic service business in 2011, he used metal detectors to locate septic tanks because the...
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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...
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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...
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Snyder’s Environmental Service Matches Its Appearance to Its Professionalism
Richard Snyder believes in having good, up-to-date equipment for his septic service business and even showed off his latest vacuum truck at...
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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...
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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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This Is One Truck That Can Do It All
You can make all your money with one truck: the Vac 1600 from Imperial Industries. It’s a septic truck and hydroexcavation machine...
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Werab Enterprises Wants Every Piece of Equipment to Work Like a Swiss Army Knife
Chad Werab’s excavating and truck-related businesses kept him plenty busy before he purchased Fred’s Septic Service in 2008. Adding the pumping service...
Electronic Line/Leak Locators - Subsite Electronics UtiliGuard
The UtiliGuard utility locating system from Subsite Electronics uses ambient interference measurement to automatically scan the surrounding area for noise and recommend...
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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...




















