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

Hank and Shane VanVeen grew up around their father’s cleaning business, eventually joining it as employees. “Our dad owned the cleaning business...

I’d like to see you in my office at the end of the day.” This is one of those requests that just...

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

Contractor Duane Johnson recalls accompanying a city crew that was proud of its brand-new combination truck. They were trying without success to...

In the middle of the grape-harvesting season at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, Calif., workers washing 40,000-gallon fermenting tanks and...

In the past two issues, we have reviewed definitions of sewage tanks and the design considerations for septic tanks. This month we...

Onsite treatment is in many ways a local business. A typical installer deals with state or even county-level regulations. You can buy...

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...

By inventing new products and finding innovative ways to deploy emerging onsite technologies, R.C. Worst & Company stays on the cutting edge...

Microsoft recently reported some confusing statistics. In a survey the company commissioned, 29 percent of small businesses said they used cloud computing...

Stormwater running down the hills of Boston College Chestnut Hill campus in Newton, Mass., surcharged the brick storm sewer, flooding the entrance...

Imagine that you’re an onsite professional trying to help the mayor or town chairman of a very small rural community — a...

There’s a group of unsung heroes in the onsite wastewater industry. It goes by a somewhat inconvenient name: The Consortium of Institutes...

Lake Simcoe, the largest inland lake in southern Ontario, suffers from acute nutrient loading. Environment Canada was concerned about contamination even from...

Two weeks after graduating from high school, while his friends were enjoying the beach, Jason Walter had started learning onsite systems as...

Pouring concrete and excavating building sites may seem like a far cry from lining sewer laterals, but for Musson Bros. Inc., the...

Distracted driving is becoming an epidemic, especially as more people use cell phones and smart phones that create a constant temptation to...

If you’ve been grinding your teeth in frustration trying to come up with a plan to take the bite out of dental...