American Liquid Waste Magazine

The Barnes family began providing septic and sewer treatment services at a time when the industry was very different. In 1957, concepts like microbial community analysis, health-related microorganisms, and biological nutrient removal were novel, and at best- revolutionary. 63 years ago, the Barnes family patriarch, C.A. Barnes, started by providing the people in his local […]

Family Run and Operated Year-Round Maine Septic Service While this is the first generation in this business, the owners of Central Maine Septic & Portable Rentals are proud to work together and get their extended family involved in their day-to-day life and operations. Rick and Wendy Turner started the business in 2002 after getting the […]

Ordinarily, we like to cover smaller, local-level companies, describe their rise to solvency and get into some of the details that make their stories interesting. It’s not often that a large company can strike a similar chord, struggling to grow, offering a respectable value proposition not only to customers but to a community- while achieving […]

Bogerro’s has been in business serving its local community for almost 100 years. A former South Carolina Small Business of the Year, the company was founded in 1938, and Bogerro’s proudly considers itself a family business and treats every employee as a valued family member. Both of the owners are sisters, carrying on the family […]

Chuck Corns, the owner/operator of One Way Septic Service in Huntington, WV, admired the truck drivers and local business owners in his community as a young man. Upon graduating high school in 1995, he followed in his family’s footsteps and started his own business, known affectionately by the locals today as “Rent-a-Kann.” At an early […]

Granny’s Alliance Holdings, Inc. is perhaps the most recognized disaster relief company for portable facilities provisioning in the United States. The company provides portable restrooms, showers, laundry trailers and other equipment for disaster response. The company holds a large equipment inventory, which it urgently deploys to areas devastated by hurricanes, forest fires, and other disasters. […]

2019 is the 90th anniversary year of Gray Brothers Septic Services, founded in 1929. Sustaining a family business for nearly a century is an astounding legacy. Steadily serving their Spring City, Pennsylvania community in the Main Line area of Philadelphia over so many decades of changes whirling around them, the business has established itself as […]

Here’s a different kind of portable restroom business. Pit Stop’s owner, Charlie Hatler, stands out in the industry with his unique and highly effective business model and world-class marketing ingenuity. We’re grateful to Charlie for taking time out of his busy morning, between fielding calls, to share a little of his company’s story and some […]

Andy Christian had been in communications for a long time. He was a rep for various major carriers, like AT&T, T-Mobile Sprint, and others, handling zoning and permitting for their major utility installations all over the southeast United States. Prior to his communications career, he had a series of jobs, including real estate, owning a […]

In early 2008, a new luxury niche service brought something unique to the Florida wedding and special events market. Edward Garcia opened the doors of Imperial Restrooms, Inc. and began delivering luxury portable restroom rental services in the sunshine state. From the start, the demand for luxury services in the Florida portable restrooms market was […]