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Technology to Succeed
For many customers with clogged drainlines, seeing is believing – and that's exactly why Dave Teeter, the owner of Action Services...
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Installing D-Boxes
There are two primary methods of delivering septic effluent to the soil treatment area by gravity: The distribution box and the drop...
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Rehab for a Rehab Center
Two single-pass buried sand filters with direct discharge to a protected trout stream failed an 80-bed rehabilitation facility for homeless men in...
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Clear View
When Bob Muchka founded The Expediters Inc., a sewer cleaning and pipeline inspection outfit in Oconomowoc, Wis., back in 2003, all he...
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Miles and Miles of Pipe
Brooke Nemeth had been in the industry for 10 years and had already served as president of one company when he decided...
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Installing Media Filters
Many kinds of media filters are used for additional pretreatment of septic tank effluent. The media can consist of sand, peat, fabric,...
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Mound in a Box
A ruling by the Door County (Wis.) Sanitarian Department to remove steel holding tanks more than 20 years old left owners of...
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Caring for Media Filters
For those riding the Treatment Train for the first time, welcome aboard the systematic process of evaluating the components of an onsite...
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Being the Joneses
The way brothers Mark and Dave Denny see the world of municipal sewer maintenance, it’s better to be the Joneses than to...
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In Control
For those reading this series on the Treatment Train for the first time, welcome to the process of evaluating the components of...
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Bought Right
The technicians at Harmon Plumbing Services Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., don’t know the folks at the local parts warehouse nearly as well...
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Mud is Money
Richard Young and partner Jose Santos developed Hydro Spy LLC with a business plan that saw the emergence of hydroexcavation as a...
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Compact Alternative
The owner of a four-bedroom home in Rochester, N.Y., noticed some wet spots on his 15- by 10-foot drainfield. As the civil...
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Saving the Wells
The Ho-Chunk Nation Environmental Health Department found rising nitrate levels in potable water wells serving the Blue Wing community in Tomah, Wis....
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To Boldly Go…
Getting access to remote sewer interceptors that run along riverbanks in Maine used to be a real chore for workers at Ted...
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Tight Spots, Tough Duty
Did you ever try to park a service truck in a congested urban area while towing a trailer-mounted jetter? If so, you’ll...













