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Sick Leave or Paid Time Off?
Many small businesses are changing how they bundle employee benefits. Sick leave? Vacation? Personal time? It’s all a bit overwhelming. Many companies...
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Wireless Reversing Cameras Minimize Installation Complexity
Featuring quality and functionality equal to existing wired systems, ECCO’s new EC5605-WK wireless reversing camera system dramatically decreases installation complexity and expense....
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Top 3 Benefits of State Association Membership
Education. Legislative advocacy. Group discounts. All benefits of belonging to a state onsite/wastewater association, but they’re just a start. The list doesn’t...
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How Do You Handle Onsite System Floods?
I recently received photos from a homeowner in Boulder County, Colo., showing the effects of a series of catastrophic flash floods that...
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Custom Orange County Choppers Bike Shines at 2014 Expo
When industrial vacuum truck manufacturer GapVax and famed fabrication shop Orange County Choppers team up to commemorate the company’s 25th anniversary, the...
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Who Will Be in Charge If You’re Out of Commission?
There’s nothing insignificant about running a successful onsite system installation or septic pumping operation. You are aware of the day-to-day struggles associated...
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7 Strategies for Happy Employees
What’s the vibe around your workplace? Do your employees frequently complain and drag themselves into work each day only to punch the...
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Case Studies: ATUs Work Wonders for 3 Problematic Systems
Treatment system helps retail center comply with water-quality regulationsProblem: The Locust Grove, Va., Town Center houses more than 20 businesses, including a...
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Pumpers and Installers Unit! Midwest Professionals Work Together
The Wisconsin Onsite Water Recycling Association provides many continuing education opportunities for its members. For those who strive to excel in their...
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Mobile Mess: Overwhelmed Trailer Park Receives Massive Replacement
As demand for sites at a mobile home park in Cedar Point, N.C., developed, the owners added more spaces with sewer connections....
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Take Cover! What Vegetative Bed Do I Need?
Last month we considered some aspects of landscaping and planting around soil treatment areas. This month we take a little closer look...
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Hammer It! Construction Runs in This Installer's Blood
Relying on family and friends helped Mark Green grow Green Construction Management from a small residential firm to one capable of handling...
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Onsite System Prices Slashed; Still No Takers
How do you persuade people to care about the environmental impact of their failing septic systems when they turn down offers to...
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Craziest Excuses for Employees Calling in Sick
People can say some pretty crazy things to get off work. Admit it, you may even have been tempted yourself. And with...
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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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Crown Of The Continent
The National Park Service was modernizing cabins and rehabilitating the wastewater infrastructure in Glacier National Park in Columbia Falls, Mont. HK Contractors...
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New Country, New Pipes, Old Problems
Dan Taylor doesn’t have an operation like yours. It is more challenging in many regards, due in large part to the place...
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Troubleshooting: Tank Startup After Construction
I read a blog recently from a wastewater treatment plant operator that suggested homeowners do not need to worry about using household...























