In 2009, owner Mike Humbert purchased a 2007 International 7500 with a 4,000-gallon aluminum tank and Masport HXL400WV pump built out by...
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Rules and Regs: Alberta Requires Training on Updated Onsite Regulations
All holders of an Alberta Private Sewage Certificate of Competency must complete a training course covering the province’s updated regulations. The Private...
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Rules and Regs: Mobile Home Park in Alabama Cited for Septic Violations and Evacuated
A circuit court judge in Alabama has issued a final ruling that requires any remaining structures in a mobile home park and...
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Rules and Regs: COWA Supports Bill to Promote Recycling Wastewater in California
As the state suffers through a fourth year of drought, the California Onsite Water Association is publicly backing a bill to establish...
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Rules and Regs: Land-spreading Ban Addressed by New York Supreme Court
Legislators are asking the New York State Department of Health to conduct its own study of the public health and environmental effects...
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Rules and Regs: Pumpers Object to Ohio Rules Requiring Inspections
Some septic tank pumpers in Ohio are considering a class action lawsuit to overturn new state rules that went into effect on...
Videos
Take the Update Plunge With This Modern Septic Business
Tune in as Walt “Clay” Kucharski, owner of Walt Kucharski Septic Service Inc. tells you what it’s like to inherit a 54-year-old...
Editorial
A New Marketing Plan For An Old-School Septic Service Company In Ohio
It’s not unusual for septic service providers to inherit businesses from parents who long resisted attempts to modernize operations, preferring handwritten invoices...
Videos
24-Year-Old Calls the Shots in This Pumping Operation
At 5 feet tall, Crissy Glass may not look like your average septic pumper and portable restroom operator, but watch how the...
Editorial
Girl Power Drives Ohio Septic Service Company To Continued Success
As a young girl, Crissy Glass posed for photos in front of her father’s vacuum trucks because she thought the trucks were...
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Rules and Regs: Which State is First to Ban Triclosan-Infused Soaps?
Minnesota has become the first state to ban the sale of antibacterial soaps, body washes and other products containing triclosan. The ban...
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Rules and Regs: Alaska Septic Pumpers Expect Stricter Disposal Limitations
Septic pumpers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough of Alaska don’t have a local disposal site for septage. Every day, they have to ship...
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Septic Pumper Earns Innovation Award and $25K
Innovation has paid off for AAA Wastewater Services of Franklin, Ohio. On the coattails of the portable restroom, septic tank and grease...
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Checking out a portable septage receiving station
Pumpers in Marietta, Ohio, this week tested a portable septage receiving station, saying a filtering system of some kind would allow a...




















