American Liquid Waste Magazine

Courses address need for flexible schedules and settings Federal Signal Environmental Solutions Group announced that FS Solutions now offers three online training courses as part of the company’s comprehensive training programs to help its customers increase job safety, operational efficiency and regulatory compliance in a variety of applications. The courses provide introductory content or serve [...]

Things just keep getting better for Big Fish Environmental, a Michigan-based company that specializes in the design and construction of septage and high strength wastewater receiving and treatment facilities throughout the United States. A recent Michigan State University study concludes that Big Fish Environmental’s Class A biosolids have concentrations of E.coli and enterococci below detection [...]

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I find it strange that, when you have children and grandchildren, tools tend to wander, particularly cool tools, like hammers. And when you find your favorite implement somewhere in the yard, all beat up and covered in rust, you ask the presumed offenders who was responsible, and you get the same answer, “Wasn’t me.” So [...]

Federal Signal Environmental Solutions Group announced in early May that its FS Solutions center in Long Beach, Calif., will be offering inspection services for any U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) 407/412 cargo tank equipped vehicles in California, effective immediately. Performed by FS Solutions’ trained service technicians, these inspections include external visual inspection, internal visual inspection, [...]

The National Association of Wastewater Transporters, Inc. (NAWT) will hold a 2-Day Land Application Demonstration Workshop in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The event will take place June 22 and 23 and will include demonstrations by top industry insiders on topics like How to Treat Sewage Sludge and Septage Before Application and Treatment Facility Basics. The demonstration workshop [...]

It used to be that a nozzle was just a nozzle, but Dan Coley and Ed Fitzgerald of Jack Doheny Supplies know that logic no longer flies in the sewer cleaning industry. It used to be that operators would throw any old nozzle on a hose and hope for the best. Most sewer cleaning operators [...]

Carrie Fox King, President and co-founder of Aglow Systems, first realized the need and idea for a solar powered portable restroom light at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2008. According to King, “We started questioning why the port-a-potties didn’t have lights.” What began as a question, led to a more serious conversation, and eventually turned [...]

Recycling has reached a whole new level. There is no such thing as new water these days, and although it is still the cheapest utility out there, new ways of conserving, treating and recycling wastewater need to be invented and implemented. “Toilet to tap” programs are growing in popularity, especially in the state of California [...]