An ordinance that would require triennial inspections of septic systems in a large part of St. Tammany Parish will be up for adoption at the Parish Council's next meeting.

Rising seas are causing septic systems across the South to fail, leading to public health concerns and costly repairs for homeowners. As detailed by The Washington Post, there are millions of septic ...

The effort to get an authorized local agency management plan for onsite wastewater treatment systems began in 2000.

It's too bad that two environmental groups felt they had no choice but to go to court to force the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control to consider how cumulative septic tank permits ...