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A major kitchen addition to a traditional English pub in Carp, Ontario, required a review of the 1,200 gpd onsite system. Although...

When Tina Brown talks about her employees at Bastrop Tank Wash Inc. taking a tanker trailer for a “spin,” she’s not referring...

Since purchasing a Roto-Rooter franchise in 1982 in Jackson, Miss., Paul Berlin has not hesitated to buy new equipment and jump into...

Talking on cellphones is being banned for drivers of all commercial vehicles in the United States, all 4 million of them. If...

Gravity and vacuum sewer systems both aim to achieve the same goals; they just use different methods to transport wastewater. How do...

Ruptures in a 24-inch force main flooded homes in Guadalupe and jeopardized production at the 235,000 barrel-per-day PEMEX oil refinery in Cadereyta...

As we travel around the country, we often talk to installers about aboveground systems. We explain how soil treatment mound systems and,...

The National Association of Wastewater Transporters Shoot-Out at the 2012 Pumper and Cleaner Expo Feb. 27-March 1 in Indianapolis featured attendees competing...

Does your company have a website? A presence on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn? If your answer is no, you’re not alone. More...

Koniag, an Alaska Native corporation, is building a world-class bear viewing and research facility on Camp Island in Karluk Lake on Kodiak...

Florida contractor John McCormick believes in sticking to a business plan. He founded the leak detection and jetting business I Find Leaks...

Hassell Free Plumbing in Gun Barrel City, Texas, owns just four service vehicles. But people who live in and around the large,...

Groves of eucalyptus trees in the City of Lake Forest, Calif., provided abundant landscaping for residents and severe root problems for the...

You might think raw sewage running through yards would be a thing of the past in the United States. Yet it is...

Three solar tanks, a lagoon, and a marsh inside a 28- by 48-foot greenhouse treat wastewater from 50 people in an office...

We have been looking at systems that use gravity to move the effluent. This month we complete this part of the discussion...

Outback Porta-Jon is a multi-faceted business that installs onsite systems, pumps, tanks, and rents portable toilets from Huntingtown, Md. Owners Steve and...

Gold miners at the remote Brucejack 150-man camp north of Stewart, B.C., had to dig latrines by hand. Helicopters air-lifted preassembled timber...

For years, Jeff Nold found it painful to watch a percentage of job profits flow into subcontractors’ coffers. So the manager of...