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Over the years, sewer cleaning companies based in northern climates would come to Houston during the winter months, but AAA ...

For many customers with clogged drainlines, seeing is believing – and that's exactly why Dave Teeter, the owner of Action Services...

There are two primary methods of delivering septic effluent to the soil treatment area by gravity: The distribution box and the drop...

Two single-pass buried sand filters with direct discharge to a protected trout stream failed an 80-bed rehabilitation facility for homeless men in...

When Bob Muchka founded The Expediters Inc., a sewer cleaning and pipeline inspection outfit in Oconomowoc, Wis., back in 2003, all he...

Brooke Nemeth had been in the industry for 10 years and had already served as president of one company when he decided...

Many kinds of media filters are used for additional pretreatment of septic tank effluent. The media can consist of sand, peat, fabric,...

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

For those riding the Treatment Train for the first time, welcome aboard the systematic process of evaluating the components of an onsite...

The way brothers Mark and Dave Denny see the world of municipal sewer maintenance, it’s better to be the Joneses than to...

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

The technicians at Harmon Plumbing Services Inc. in Raleigh, N.C., don’t know the folks at the local parts warehouse nearly as well...

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

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...

The Ho-Chunk Nation Environmental Health Department found rising nitrate levels in potable water wells serving the Blue Wing community in Tomah, Wis....

Getting access to remote sewer interceptors that run along riverbanks in Maine used to be a real chore for workers at Ted...

Did you ever try to park a service truck in a congested urban area while towing a trailer-mounted jetter? If so, you’ll...