Minimal Site Disruption with Installation of RetroFAST®, Ottawa, Canada. Rob Sanna, technical advisor for L&S Water Technologies, was contacted by a homeowner in September 2003 to provide maintenance and pump out for a 14-year-old conventional septic system utilizing a sand drain field. The system was bleeding out, creating small ponds of sewage around the yard. The homeowners knew they had a problem. They had started exploring their options, but were worried that the installation of a new system would damage the unique hedges that lined the perimeter of their yard...[More]
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	Drain Field Renovation with RetroFAST® Dick Bartel approached Frank Hay in mid August 2002 looking for alternatives for repairing a neighbor’s biologically-failing conventional septic system. Bartel had originally looked into replacing the entire soil absorption system with a pressurized drip-tubing system. Total cost of materials and installation would have come to over $8,000...[More]
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	Taney County Man Works to Improve Septic Tanks Taney County — Perched casually atop a ring of unearthed dirt in his back yard, Floyd Gilzow peered into a pit as two mud-covered men tinkered with his septic tank Tuesday morning. The men — employees of White River Valley Environmental Services — were retrofitting the tank with a second chamber that will incorporate oxygen into the on-site sewage treatment process...[More]
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	New Septic Systems Put to the Test Jefferson County, WA -- An experiment to test nitrogen-removing septic systems in southern Hood Canal was launched Monday with the installation of a small treatment device at a home near Twanoh State Park...[More]