Permit Articles

Better regulations, smarter monitoring of wastewater rules would improve profitability and bolster the industry’s reputation.

Not in Tennessee, where state officials are digitizing the vast majority of county onsite records and making them available to anyone on a searchable database.

In this month's regulations update, the Alaska Supreme Court rules against a land-applying farmer, and a large homeowner-education program stresses the importance of septic pumping, with assistance from the Long Island Liquid Waste Association.

In this month’s regulations update, off-grid residents in a Colorado county are fighting land-use rules, and a federal judge refuses to revisit the ruling on EPA jurisdiction over compliant onsite systems.

In this month’s regulations update, Florida lawmakers dispute the land application ban and pumpers in Ohio object to being forced to conduct inspections.

In this month’s regulations update, Midwest counties kick septic system locating into high gear, and the only state that still allows new cesspools reconsiders that option.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency drafted a general NPDES permit to set water quality and management standards for direct discharge from 1,500-gpd buried or recirculating sand filters, waste stabilization ponds, and aerobic treatment plants listed by NSF for Class I effluent.

Multiple bouts with cancer and a wild economic ride can’t keep hardworking Colorado pumpers Kevin and Cindy Sullivan down.