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The Rose Hill (Kan.) Resource Management Facility does much more than reclaim the city’s wastewater and return it to the environment. It...

Sometimes you don’t have to go far to find good opportunities. The owners of Acme Oil Service & Repair learned that lesson,...

Even the high-tech world around Seattle felt the recession several years ago. Businesses flying above the clouds fell to earth. But Ace...

With just 17,000 residents, the city of Cocoa, Fla., is fairly small. But it has a huge water system: 1,325 miles of...

Expensive and disruptive emergency calls for clogged drains take their toll on customers – and drain cleaners, too. That’s why Snowbridge Inc.,...

Egrets and trumpeter swans may know more about the Shannon Wastewater Treatment Plant than the 757 folks it serves. These and other...

It’s not often that a former stay-at-home soccer mom becomes the head of a gas and oilfield support-services company. But that’s exactly...

Like other once heavily industrial cities, Chattanooga, Tenn., has reinvented itself with tempting tourism attractions, cleaner air and water, and an optimism...

Spend some time around Tacoma Water, and you might not hear the word “maintenance” very much.It’s not that the utility serving the...

When licensed civil engineer Nick Mathey first heard about televising sanitary and storm sewer lines he had just completed designing a subdivision,...

The complexities of the Grass Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant don’t faze supervisor Bob Bobik and his experienced operators. They relish the challenges, never...

When Duane Barth purchased The Rental Store in Jamestown, N.D., in 1996, he had no idea portable sanitation would one day account...

Except for a couple of vacuum trucks parked by the barn and Miller-Bartz Septic decals on a couple of pickups, Mark and...

In the early 1970s, local lakes in Pierce County, Wash., began experiencing water-quality problems. The area faced a moratorium on building, but...