by Shannon Pepper | Apr 3, 2025 | Communications and Outreach, Decentralized Wastewater Systems
Image credit: Shutterstock More than one in five households in the U.S. depend on individual septic systems or small community cluster systems to treat their wastewater, with some states such as Vermont reporting that up to 55% of households use septic systems. Here...
by AJ Barney | Feb 7, 2025 | Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Pollution & Water Quality, Uncategorized, Wastewater
This video covers practical tips for inspecting septic tanks and covers measurement of solids levels as a means to evaluate pumping frequencies. This video is created and presented by Greg Pearson, who is the water and wastewater systems trainer at the Great Lakes...
by AJ Barney | Jan 27, 2025 | Access to Water Funding Sources, Decentralized Wastewater Systems, Financial Management, Funding Coordination, Stormwater, Uncategorized, Wastewater
Funding for water and wastewater projects can be confusing to navigate, and it is generally provided by a variety of agencies in each state. Some states have made an effort to consolidate funding entities and partner agencies to provide a singular point of contact for...
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...
