American Liquid Waste Magazine

Liquid waste haulers can be a practical group; and considering what they do all day, moving waste from place to place, that should be no surprise to anyone.  Their equipment has to be durable and easy to handle. Those two requirements have been especially important over the past eighteen months as [...]

As the enormous oil spill teases the Gulf coastline with its threat of environmental disaster, hundreds of industrial vacuum trucks manufactured and serviced by Guzzler Manufacturing are poised along beaches to help with anticipated cleanup efforts.
The 3,000-gallon, multi-service trucks generally are sent to construction areas, factories, and other [...]

Minnesota is known for quite a few things; two of its more famous attributes are cold winters and a lot of water.  The winters (with the exception of northern Minnesota) are blown out of proportion.  I talk to people in New Jersey, New York or Pennsylvania and they often say, “Oh [...]

Too often we think we are superman or superwoman and able to do everything ourselves. We say things like “it would be quicker to do it myself”, “no one does this as well as I do” and we make ourselves believe we are the only one who can do our job [...]

Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co., Inc., held their 20th annual Pumpology® School April 21-23, at their corporate facilities in Port Orange, Fla.
Thompson Pump hosted more than 40 attendees from 15 states and three foreign countries.  The three-day workshop included training sessions for sales and service-oriented professionals on pumping fundamentals, [...]

For a state famous for its pristine landscape and sprawling vistas, it’s no wonder that an association responsible for supporting Idaho’s small water systems has the word “rural” in its title. No less surprising is that the Idaho Rural Water Association’s employees keep plenty busy serving water and wastewater associations that [...]

Lou Paulsen was in the marina business in Illinois when he and a partner invested in a portable restroom company. When the marina closed, he took his part of the remaining company and went south to Texas.
Why Texas? “At the time, Abilene had the worst service record of [...]