Staff from Summit County’s environmental health department presented to the Summit Board of County Commissioners at a Jan. 13 ...

For many people who live on a lake a sewer system is not available. They rely on Individual Sewage Treatment Systems, commonly called septic systems, to treat and disperse waste and recycle water. A ...

This is the leach field for a septic system. Septic designers have all sorts of options and can make a septic system work on just about any lot. (Tim Carter/TNS/TNS) Perspective by Tim Carter Do you ...

Do you wonder how septic systems work? I never gave it much thought in all the years I lived in Cincinnati. Every house I lived in was connected to a municipal sewer line. Just about every house I ...

Q: Marsha, I’m purchasing a home that is on a septic system rather than the public sewer. My home inspector strongly suggests I pay for a septic tank inspection. How do septic systems work? A: Your ...

Nearly one-fifth of American households depend on septic systems to treat wastewater, and those numbers are even higher in rural areas like those found in the Mohican River watershed. Unfortunately, ...

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To treat their wastewater, properties in the United States not connected to a public sewer are required to install a septic system. Called on-site sewage facilities ...

On Tuesday, Brevard County Commission approved more financial help for those Florida is forcing to have cleaner septic tank ...

The Wellfleet Board of Health is working on regulations that would require owners of central district properties with cesspools and failing septic systems to upgrade ...

"Even products advertised as ‘flushable’ do not break down and can clog toilets, household plumbing, sewer pipes and pumps, ...

As Susan Daly closed in on purchasing her next home earlier this summer — a cottage on a hill built in the 1920s in Oakland County's Highland Township — a home inspector's discovery of an unusual pipe ...