Entries Tagged Michigan

Owner Jeff Boutell added this Sherwood green 2015 Kenworth T800 vacuum truck with a 4,200-gallon waste/200-gallon freshwater aluminum tank and Wittig RFL...

As the state suffers through a fourth year of drought, the California Onsite Water Association is publicly backing a bill to establish...

Septic service professionals in Wisconsin may be facing a bit of a quandary concerning their liability insurance. In two December decisions, the...

An unusually heavy snowmelt and series of rainstorms in the Northwestern portion of Wisconsin are causing septic systems to back up. According...

Minnesota has become the first state to ban the sale of antibacterial soaps, body washes and other products containing triclosan. The ban...

Ray Birchmeier is a fourth-generation Michigan farmer. And up until the spring of 2012 he also had 120 cows to milk twice...

Except for a couple of vacuum trucks parked by the barn and Miller-Bartz Septic decals on a couple of pickups, Mark and...

The Michigan State University Extension has lobbed another volley in the battle over products marketed as “flushable wipes.’’ The university warns that...

In the beginning, pumping outhouses and installing homemade septic tanks supported Morris DeJonghe’s family in the village of Britton, Mich. Begun in...

Some contractors in Oakland County, Mich., were installing septic systems without obtaining permits and often used inferior materials. Their actions were illegal...

A lot has changed in the liquid waste industry since Duane Shelar started helping out around the family business, Shelar Sanitation, as...

Pump That Septic/Dig-It Excavating is profiled in the March issue of Pumper Magazine. This video is sponsored by Cape Cod Biochemical /...