American Liquid Waste Magazine

People have been putting portable restrooms to creative use long before Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass crew started using them for slingshotting and blowing them up to get a laugh. Dan Harris, owner of Five Peaks Technology in Muskegon, Michigan, has heard of people using their portable toilets as hunting blinds out in the middle [...]

No one would call a family business a rarity in the septic pumping and portable restroom industries. By the same token, there are times when a family business includes a lot of people who aren’t related by blood, but by commitment, respect, trust and affection. When that happens, a company might just find itself in [...]

Reynolds Sewer Service, Inc. is a family business, but it sure didn’t start out the way most family businesses do. When Tom Reynolds was 13 years old, his dad, who worked for a company that manufactured high-end office furniture, told Tom that if he wanted spending money, he needed to earn it. So he started [...]

Thompson Pump of Fort Orange, Florida will showcase a revolutionary priming system with OVT (oil-less vacuum technology) configured with the new John Deere IT4, which is an interim tier 4 engine at the upcoming CONEXPO 2011 tradeshow. Stop by booth #4945 in Hall C to view these revolutionary new technologies available today. The groundbreaking OVT [...]

An engineer’s high-priced estimates on a county sewerage system in Georgia have thrown a major kink into plans to link local systems with a regional waste treatment plant. In fact, the idea may be flushed completely. Madison County leaders will meet again to discuss potential options on expanding sewerage services locally. How this will play [...]

The results from a 13-month verification test performed by NSF International under the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ETV Program’s Water Quality Protection Center have been announced, and they are a strong endorsement for Big Fish Environmental. According to Tom Stevens, an NSF Water Quality Protection Center Manager, the Big Fish Environmental System “provides a [...]

Mike Lucht, President of Eagle Eye Tracking, Inc., developed a GPS event tracking system for his own use at Progressive Sweeping in Toledo, Ohio. He wanted something that would help his company work more efficiently on a job by being able to track exactly how long a particular job was worked automatically. Being able to [...]

The Portable Sanitation Association International (PSAI) will host the 2011 Nuts & Bolts Workshop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The event will take place March 30 through April 2, 2011 at the Hilton Hotel Downtown. For a city with the ideal mix of business and pleasure, there’s no place better than Milwaukee. Charming millions of visitors every [...]