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Creating a Competitive Benefits Package
An effective benefits package based on employee engagement levels can prove significant, with productivity and efficiency levels boosted, sickness and absenteeism reduced,...
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Are You a One-Trick Pony?
If your drain cleaning business has become stagnant, consider diversifying. Additional services can be the key to your company’s growth.Consider septic tank...
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Top Traits of a Great Leader
During an unprecedented wave of retirements, leadership is a hot issue for water and wastewater utilities. To develop effective leaders to fill...
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Cleaner Rewind: Market Shift Creates Realignment for APC
We celebrate the continued dedication and hard work of drain cleaning contractors by revisiting companies profiled 10 years ago in Cleaner magazine....
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NYC Biogas Innovation Becomes Moneymaker
It’s a case of triple serendipity. The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant serving New York City in Brooklyn, produces three million cubic...
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Frost Gone Wild: Wisconsin Utilities Hit Hard by Abnormal Winter
Cold, frost and frozen pipes are an annual occurrence in Wisconsin. But even in the land of the Frozen Tundra, this year’s...
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Net Zero Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing requires plenty of water. However, Shell Canada Energy has reduced its reliance on potable water to zero at the Montney...
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Top Traits of a Great Leader
During an unprecedented wave of retirements, leadership is a hot issue for water and wastewater utilities. To develop effective leaders to fill...
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Dust Mask or Disposable Respirator?
Respirators protect workers from inhaling dangerous material that can cause acute or chronic respiratory problems. Acute conditions occur suddenly and usually involve...
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Is Your Small Business Recession Proof?
Whether you’ve been pumping septic tanks for decades or you just purchased your first vacuum truck, when money and expensive equipment are...
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Rules and Regs: Delaware Creates New Septic System Inspector Licenses
After five years of work, the Delaware Groundwater Discharges Section of the Department of Natural Resources has updated its septic regulations. The...
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How To Handle Employees Calling in Sick
A new year may usher in many changes, both positive and negative, but for some employers, the problems of absenteeism and lost...
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Would You Ditch Diesel for Natural Gas?
Natural gas is cheaper than diesel, cleaner-burning and domestically produced. It’s also quite abundant in the sense that the U.S. won’t be...

















