The North Barrington Health and Sanitation Commission voted unanimously Monday night to approve a recommendation to the Village Board to allow mound sewage treatment systems. The change is in ...

BACA-PREWITT, NAVAJO NATION, NM — As part of its ongoing collaboration with the DigDeep Navajo Water Project, the International Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Foundation (IWSH) recently designed and ...

It came to my attention on a quiet summer day in 1989 — heavy trucks were rolling down the dirt road. Trees were being cut down; stumps, bulldozed. Twenty truckloads of sand and gravel were brought in ...

Dickerson resident George Worthington doesn’t envision a giant residential subdivision on his 137-acre property in the Agricultural Reserve. The lifelong Montgomery County resident bought just 10 ...

Q: I'm thinking of planting some items along the side of our sand mound. In doing research, I understand that certain groundcovers should not be used on or near a sand mound. I came across some plants ...

Many homes in the Poconos have elevated sand mounds for septic systems with shallow soil. Sand mounds are required when the soil profile is less than sixty inches deep. Most homeowners plant grass on ...

Every time Clint and Bobbi Elston flush a toilet or turn on their tap, they make history. Clint Elston has designed what he believes is the world’s first self-contained sewage treatment system in the ...

CHESTER Local legislators say the current moratorium on forcing homeowners to convert to $30,000 vertical mound septic systems is hanging by a thread. Homeowners are urged to write Gov. Ted Strickland ...

JACKSON — For well over a year, Teton County residents and water-quality watchdogs fought state officials and environmental regulators, arguing that a septic system for a glamping resort near Teton ...

Editor's Note: After this article, which quotes the Abbotts, their septic system designer and the installer, we received input from several other sources, extolling the virtues of the Enviro-Septic™ ...

A development company will design and build a new sewer system that will take flows from Mound House through Dayton to the new Rolling A Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Lyon County commissioners have ...