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Squeeze Play
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...
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Pumping Right
As mentioned in recent articles on installing tanks, a good pump installation starts with making sure that the pump tank is watertight....
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Bucking the Tide
Les Harris looks for opportunity – he doesn’t wait for it to come knocking. That’s the way he has done business for...
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Fixing Failures
I think we would all agree that this economy is affecting everyone. I missed the Great Depression, but I am reminded of...
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Sand, Surf and Septage
Onsite systems at 16 beaches on Santa Monica Bay, Calif., had exceeded their useful lives. Most were at risk of overflows and...
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Going Municipal
While the nation’s economy went from boom to nearly bust after the turn of the new century, Quality Pipe Services has managed...
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Long Reach
Looking to broaden services, build new business, increase productivity and protect employees, the owners of Florida Flow Control in Wellington, Fla., decided...
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The Other Half
Getting the most out of a combination jetter/vacuum truck requires homework and knowledge. After 25 years of selling equipment, sales manager Rick...
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Flirting with Failure
Puddles alongside the front porch of a three-bedroom home in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicated a leak in the waterline. Since the spigot was...
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Pumps in Dosing Systems
Last month we wrote about systems in which a pump delivers effluent or sewage to a location where the rest of the...
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Eyes on the Future
Reputation is everything,” says Alex Mauck, third-generation owner of Goodman Sanitation in Troutdale, Ore., a suburb of Portland. “As customers get smarter,...
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Being Helpful
Ask homeowners about almost any aspect of their home and chances are they will regale you with facts – the kind 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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Healthy Alternative
For 12 months or longer, sewage ponded under a three-bedroom mobile home in Alkol, W.Va., until it spread 30 feet beyond the...
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Just One Call
They wanted to be a one-stop-shop for problems with underground utility lines: to find it, fix it, and leave the client in...
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Sizzle That Sells
To expand its business, Tillett Plumbing & Heating chose the sizzle and the steak, combining a trailer jetter from Spartan Tool and...
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When It’s Never Quiet
Have you ever gone to an isolated place and sat for a while, just marveling at the silence? Now imagine if you...
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Tapping into Insight
It was supposed to be a business serving the central part of Iowa, providing basic water and wastewater services to municipalities and...





















