Newbern, an Alabama town 50 miles south of Tuscaloosa, will receive a $1 million federal grant to improve its septic systems, multiple...
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Success Study: Acceptance of Septage at Claremore’s Treatment Plant
For years, haulers in and around Claremore, Oklahoma, struggled with limited and costly options for septage disposal. The city’s treatment plant, while technically...
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The Path to Having Your Own Septage Pretreatment Facility
Many of us think how great it would be to have our own treatment facility for the septage, greasetrap waste, and sewage...
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Rules and Regs: Property-Transfer Septic Inspections Added for Lake Placid Home Buyers
Property owners selling their Lake Placid homes in New York now are required to have their septic systems inspected before closing the...
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Membrane Bioreactors Offer Big Solutions for Small Places
Membrane bioreactors are a newer type of aerobic treatment unit recently found more and more often in the market for small-scale effluent...
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Onsite Installation Challenges: The Steep, Small, Wooded Lake Lot
In system installation videos that companies post online, I see a lot of wide-open flat fields with no hills in the pictures....
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Rules and Regs: New York Enables 5th Round of Funding for Septic System Replacement Program
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation making it more affordable to install or upgrade septic systems, multiple media outlets reported. New...
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Why Homeowner Education About Onsite Systems Still Falls Short
In a time when almost anything can be learned with a Google search or YouTube tutorial, how is it possible that so...
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Surface Prep for Aboveground Onsite Wastewater Systems
A simple fact in the world of onsite wastewater system installation is that not all systems can go below grade. Various circumstances...
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Protecting the Septic Tank Ecosystem
Elmer's glue. The only way to describe the septic tank I was looking down into was that it appeared to be completely...
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Rules and Regs: Agreement Ends With Lowndes County, Alabama
The Trump administration has terminated a 2023 settlement agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health that sought to correct longstanding sewer...
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Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Clean Sand in System Design
We get a lot of questions about clean sand. Most are related to the clean sand requirement for mound sewage treatment systems....
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Rules and Regs: Court Upholds Septic Restrictions to Protect Florida Manatees
A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s order that placed a moratorium on new septic tank installations in parts of the...
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Cleaning Products and Septic Systems
There are entire aisles of stores dedicated to different cleaning products in today’s world. Consumers browse the choices reading what each cleaner...















