American Liquid Waste Magazine

Established in 1957, Boyett’s is one of those many local level sanitation companies that did everything right early on in the game. They struck while the iron was hot when it came to getting into the portable restroom rental, supply, and service business by providing rental portable toilets as soon as the technology became available […]

Construction in the San Fernando Valley in the 1940s was very much up in the air. With much of the nation’s resources being pumped into fighting Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers, the shape of construction depended largely on the available materials, which were scarce. As we have covered in recent articles, the early forms […]

Like many local level septic service companies, Joy’s Johns started largely in response to marked under-development in their home town, Granger, Indiana in 1945. Easily one of the oldest septic service companies that we have covered, Joy’s has grown up alongside the Granger community and has been an important part of the town’s development over […]

Jim’s Liquid Waste Hauling LLC: Septic Service With a Personal Twist Like many local septic service and portable restroom rental companies, Jim’s Liquid Waste Hauling LLC is a family-owned business with a local history and strong ties to the community it serves. Founded in 1988, the company has developed a strong rapport with their customers. […]

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. […]