by Shannon Pepper | Dec 20, 2024 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems
The holidays are a wonderful time to travel, visit friends and family, welcome new people to the dinner table, give back, and be thankful. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), 115.2 million Americans traveled more than fifty miles from home over the...
by Shannon Pepper | Dec 2, 2024 | Access to Wastewater Funding Sources, Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Wastewater
In this podcast, Dawn Nall and A.J. Barney from the Southwest Environmental Finance Center discuss their recent experience providing technical assistance as part of the EPA’s “Closing America’s Wastewater Access Gap” Pilot projects. They...
by Shannon Pepper | Oct 29, 2024 | Complying with Wastewater Regulations, Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Source Water Protection
Image credit: Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Project Background There are approximately 83,000 cesspools in the State of Hawaii, releasing an estimated 50 million gallons per day (mgd) of wastewater...
by Shannon Pepper | Oct 3, 2024 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems
Roughly 25% of homes across the globe aren’t connected to public wastewater systems, but why? Learn About Septic Systems: https://www.epa.gov/septic/septicsmart
by Shannon Pepper | Sep 19, 2024 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems
Photo courtesy of Mississippi State University Extension, Agriculture Communications It’s like turning lemons into lemonade. If you do not like lemons, you may want to find something good that can be found in or produced from this fruit. Some people do not like...
by Shannon Pepper | Aug 7, 2024 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems
For homes not connected to a public wastewater system, a septic tank may be a good option for treating wastewater. But how does a septic tank handle both solid and liquid waste?
