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As a self-employed onsite system consultant, Mike Treinen personally conducts all the day-to-day activities of his business: marketing, communications, research, field work...

A ruling by the Door County (Wis.) Sanitarian Department to remove steel holding tanks more than 20 years old left owners of...

Dead concrete is breathing new business life into S & S Waterblasting. A cleaning system robotically removes dried concrete from mixer-truck drums...

A leaking 30-inch cast-iron water transmission main was a long-standing problem for a neighborhood in Amarillo, Texas. Installed in 1927 when there...

Looking to broaden services, build new business, increase productivity and protect employees, the owners of Florida Flow Control in Wellington, Fla., decided...

Puddles alongside the front porch of a three-bedroom home in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicated a leak in the waterline. Since the spigot was...

A well-trained team can make the difference between business success and failure. Lovett Services in Portland, Ore., has built a loyal workforce...

An engineer in St. Charles County, Mo., hired 18-year-olds to do his percolation tests, designed the onsite systems on his kitchen table,...

For those reading this series on the Treatment Train for the first time, welcome to the process of evaluating the components of...

I’d like to see you in my office at the end of the day.” This is one of those requests that just...

Richard Young and partner Jose Santos developed Hydro Spy LLC with a business plan that saw the emergence of hydroexcavation as a...

In the middle of the grape-harvesting season at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, Calif., workers washing 40,000-gallon fermenting tanks and...

Onsite treatment is in many ways a local business. A typical installer deals with state or even county-level regulations. You can buy...

Imagine that you’re an onsite professional trying to help the mayor or town chairman of a very small rural community — a...

Lake Simcoe, the largest inland lake in southern Ontario, suffers from acute nutrient loading. Environment Canada was concerned about contamination even from...

Two weeks after graduating from high school, while his friends were enjoying the beach, Jason Walter had started learning onsite systems as...

If you’ve been grinding your teeth in frustration trying to come up with a plan to take the bite out of dental...