We regularly cover hot-topic industry issues that affect you and your businesses. One of those — the fuel emissions debate — rages on...
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Permit Process: Regulator Explains Onsite Rule-Making
The Tennessee Onsite Wastewater Association (TOWA) has a diverse membership that President Bob O’Dette says helps build broad consensus on ways to...
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Dig Safe: Website Helps You Protect Underground Utilities
With a couple clicks, excavation companies can access information about the latest technologies available to help them prevent damaging underground utilities. The...
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How To Keep Tabs on Industry Regulations
Keeping track of increasing — and more stringent — regulations for onsite septic installations and inspections and septic pumping can be difficult....
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Emission Standards and Diesel Technology Upset Heavy-Duty Truck Market
Another fuel emissions benchmark was recently introduced, marking the next notch in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations belt. The EPA and...
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Specification Tank Truck Remounting: Regulatory Considerations
A properly maintained specification cargo tank should outlast at least one truck chassis and can provide a long service life over a...
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Combo Lamp Integrates Several Functions
Optronics International, an offshore vehicle lighting manufacturer, announces its new STL68 Combo Lamp. The 9-inch oval combination LED stop, tail, turn and...
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Onsite design and installation updates a long time coming in rural Ohio
Proposed rule changes for the design and installation of septic systems represent the first update to the standards in 35 years in...
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Regular Septic Tank Pumping Puts Money in Your Pocket
Here we go again. A group is yet again attempting to kill legislation in Florida that would improve septic systems and promote...
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Septic Pumper Hit With $33,000 Fine
A septic pumping contractor in Kalispell, Mont., faces a steep penalty for what some might consider a minor mistake — failing to...
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Missouri Earmarks Funds to Replace Aging Septic Systems
Grant funding for the repair or replacement of residential septic systems is available in the upper White River watershed of southwest Missouri....
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Stone Cold Safety Tips
As temperatures hover at -25 degrees F (-50 degrees with wind chill) outside my window in Northern Wisconsin, I think a brief...
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A familiar plea: Don’t raise our septic system costs
Some in Ohio are expressing alarm over the state considering rule changes for septic design and installation for the first time since...
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Identify Weaknesses to Improve Safety Programs
Our last safety column dealt with how small mistakes can lead to catastrophic events. As the column showed, there will be one death for...
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Commercial Drivers Learn to Save Lives
About half of the traffic accident deaths in the United Kingdom occur before an ambulance arrives. Having first aid available quicker could...
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Worker Dies in Chicago Sewer After Removing Safety Harness
A 25-year-old Chicago sewer worker died on Sept. 18 after being swept away by heavy rainwater while working in a sewer pipe....
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Basic Safety Tips for Pumpers
Be safe. Drive safe. Stay safe. We hear these phrases often and sometimes utter them to others without much thought.J.B. Myers Enterprises...







