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Weekly Flush: Amari Harley's Family Sues City of Jacksonville for Negligence
The family of Amari Harley — the 3-year-old boy who died after falling into an unsecured septic tank at a Jacksonville, Florida,...
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Weekly Flush: Elderly Woman Conned Into Buying Nonexistent Septic System Replacement
An elderly woman was recently scammed out of $30,000 in Dewey, Arizona, after a man claimed he’d replaced her entire septic system while...
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Weekly Flush: Seller Says 'Too Bad' After Homebuyers Find Rotting Septic Tank Under Plywood
A news organization in Cortland Manor, New York, helped pressure listing agents to replace a collapsing septic tank after they brokered the...
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Weekly Flush: Septic Pumper Fires Back at Sheriff's Accusations of Illegal Operation
There’s been an interesting development in an article Pumper.com first shared back in March about a local sheriff’s office that had received...
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Weekly Flush: Driver Rolls Septic Truck Into Residential Swimming Pool
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave...
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Weekly Flush: Professor Fights Septic Cartel With Competition-Driving App
Apparently in Dakar, Senegal, the septic system services industry is run as a cartel, and an associate professor out of the University...
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Weekly Flush: Septic Truck Crashes Into Creek After Brake Failure
A septic truck in West Harrison, Indiana, recently got mangled after crashing into a creek. The driver was unharmed and says the...
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Weekly Flush: How Caller ID Spoofers Can Ruin Your Local Reputation
A local pumping business in La Porte City, Iowa, is having its reputation dragged through the mud thanks to a robocall spoofing...
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Weekly Flush: Drunk Driver Rolls Septic Truck Onto Side
A 33-year-old man from Orchard Park, New York, is charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated after rolling a septic truck onto its...
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Weekly Flush: Hidden Camera Catches Man Emptying Pumper Truck on Neighbor's Land
Somewhere in Doug McAtee’s Pumper Bible there ought to be a commandment that reads, "Thou shalt not secretly spray raw sewage on thy...
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Weekly Flush: Watch These Portable Restrooms Take Flight
Let’s kick off this edition of the Weekly Flush with a viral video believed to have originated out of Commerce City, Colorado....
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Weekly Flush: Local Sheriff Pursuing Under-the-Table Septic Services Operator
There are quite a few interesting stories this week in the world of septic news, but we’ll kick off this edition of...
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Weekly Flush: Head-On Crash With Pumper Truck Kills Four People
Some sad news came out of York County, Pennsylvania, April 30, as it was reported that a head-on collision between a utility...









