American Liquid Waste Magazine

Industrial cleaning in the sewer or wastewater industry has never enjoyed a big profit margin. Toss in a dicey economy, and contractors look for every advantage to cover their costs and enjoy a modest gain. For that reason, the development of industrial cleaning tools, water blasting, and inspection equipment has recently been driven by the [...]

Zoeller Pump Company is proud to announce the release of the Scale Removal System (SRS 109). This 100% preassembled and job ready system is designed to save service technicians’ time when performing maintenance on gas-fired tankless water heaters. This gas-tight, odor free unit effectively removes scale buildup from hard water deposits in the heat exchanger [...]

Families Fighting for Their Industry By Jim vonMeier Remember when plaster was used to finished interior walls? Art Beierle does.  In the 1950s, Art believed he had a lifetime of work ahead of him—until the early 1960s, when drywall was developed.  Although plastering covered all the sins of the job and made for a beautiful [...]

California. Talk to anyone involved in wastewater issues and the regulations that guide them, and sooner or later, the state of California and its cutting edge approach to environmental issues comes up in the conversation. “Green” technologies, professional certifications, safeguards for groundwater and onsite sewage systems—the West Coast seems to be where many of the [...]

It seems the only thing the folks at Russell Reid don’t plan for is good fortune. They study every aspect of the waste management industry, meet annually for a management retreat to strategize for the year ahead, carry out an acquisitions program, reinvest in the company according to long-term goals for managed growth, and carefully [...]

Sim/Tech Filter introduces new septic tank guide corners called Sure-Sets.  The Sure-Set helps to assure watertight sealing of mid-seam and sectional tanks as well as tops.  They do so by guiding the tank section or top into place.  This accurately lines up the butyl ribbon and helps to eliminate the sections from prematurely touching and [...]

Vacall® high-performance sewer cleaning equipment, sweeper/cleaners, straight jetting trucks, hydro-excavators and industrial vacuum loaders, all distinguished by their exceptional vacuum force and rugged durability, is now connecting with fans through Facebook. The Facebook profile is being used to directly communicate with those interested in Vacall products and who want to receive updates about the company [...]

You’ve heard the hype, your kids are on it, now you are trying to figure out how to use Facebook to promote your business. Facebook presents an enormous opportunity, there is no denying the 400 million users, the fact that the average user has 130 friends, and that people spend over 500 billion minutes per [...]