Sand leeching into a corroded 4-inch cast iron lateral caused sewage backups into a restaurant (which had to close), a check cashing...
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Bursting With Flavor
Some industrial wastewater lines at a food processing plant in San Jose, Calif., were too small to handle the volume and others...
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From Lavatory to Lawn
A couple wanted to build a 22,000-square-foot mansion in Brentwood, Calif., and recycle the shower, bath, and laundry water on the 3.75-acre...
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Partnerships in Practice
As a self-employed onsite system consultant, Mike Treinen personally conducts all the day-to-day activities of his business: marketing, communications, research, field work...
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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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Fruit of the Vine
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...
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Making It Personal
Remember those Andre Agassi commercials for Canon cameras with the tagline, “Image is everything?”Mark Bonney agrees, and that’s why the 22 service...











