A hatch to a septic system spreading underground hides under a blanket of snow. (Photo: Donna Kallner) One day last summer when I was working the U.S. Census, I visited a cluster of homes on a narrow ...

An onsite wastewater treatment system, more commonly known as a septic system, consists of an intentionally designed chamber with inlets and outlets, utilizing settling and anaerobic bacteria to ...

A new product on the market helps ailing septic systems by aerating and circulating waste within the systems. SludgeHammer systems installed into residences with already clogged traditional septic ...

Many, if not most homes, in Sterling use a passive onsite wastewater treatment system consisting of a single compartment septic tank and a trench/bed subsurface wastewater (Pipe-In-Stone) infiltration ...