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A good media relations strategy is an overlooked but often very beneficial way for companies in our industry to raise their visibility...

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

Dead concrete is breathing new business life into S & S Waterblasting. A cleaning system robotically removes dried concrete from mixer-truck drums...

Municipalities have long embraced open-cut as the method of choice for installing water and sewer systems, but a growing number of officials...

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...

As mentioned in recent articles on installing tanks, a good pump installation starts with making sure that the pump tank is watertight....

Les Harris looks for opportunity – he doesn’t wait for it to come knocking. That’s the way he has done business for...

I think we would all agree that this economy is affecting everyone. I missed the Great Depression, but I am reminded of...

Onsite systems at 16 beaches on Santa Monica Bay, Calif., had exceeded their useful lives. Most were at risk of overflows and...

While the nation’s economy went from boom to nearly bust after the turn of the new century, Quality Pipe Services has managed...

Looking to broaden services, build new business, increase productivity and protect employees, the owners of Florida Flow Control in Wellington, Fla., decided...

Getting the most out of a combination jetter/vacuum truck requires homework and knowledge. After 25 years of selling equipment, sales manager Rick...

Puddles alongside the front porch of a three-bedroom home in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicated a leak in the waterline. Since the spigot was...

Last month we wrote about systems in which a pump delivers effluent or sewage to a location where the rest of the...

Reputation is everything,” says Alex Mauck, third-generation owner of Goodman Sanitation in Troutdale, Ore., a suburb of Portland. “As customers get smarter,...

Ask homeowners about almost any aspect of their home and chances are they will regale you with facts – the kind of...

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

For 12 months or longer, sewage ponded under a three-bedroom mobile home in Alkol, W.Va., until it spread 30 feet beyond the...

They wanted to be a one-stop-shop for problems with underground utility lines: to find it, fix it, and leave the client in...