If your home isn't hooked up to a municipal sewer system, your alternative is a septic system, which includes a container buried underground on your property that holds and treats the water and waste ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Every toilet flush and running faucet can place an additional burden on septic systems in homes ravaged by Indiana's floods, said a Purdue University Extension agricultural ...

A septic system sounds straightforward—you install the tank, run the lines, and call it a day. But most of the regrets homeowners have with septic setups come down to one thing: location. Once it’s in ...

As a writer for Forbes Home since 2021, Emily specializes in writing about home warranties, solar installations, car transportation and moving companies. With a background in journalism and experience ...

The residential, by application, is expected to be the most significant Septic tanks segment during the forecast period. Conventional septic tanks is anticipated to be the fastest-growing septic tanks ...

ROGERS — Most Northwest Arkansas residents don’t think twice when they flush their toilets or put food down garbage disposals. They know it’s going to a treatment plant. But for the 25,000 septic tank ...

One way to help stop harmful algae and invasive weeds from mucking up the ailing Wekiwa and Gemini springs is by digging up septic tanks and replacing them with sewer connections. That’s the goal ...

It’s an old joke, but Al Thurmes laughs anyway. “This job? It sucks,” he said, over the roar of his vacuum-cleaning truck slurping the sewage out of a septic tank. That describes the future of his ...

This trench was dug to help alleviate rainwater issues in the yard of Roosevelt Jones, whose septic system has increasingly failed at his Suffolk, Va., home. (Kristen Zeis for The Washington Post) ...

In Florida, one of the nation’s largest waterways is in danger as septic tanks are disrupting the fragile ecosystem of the state’s Indian River Lagoon. NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Lisa ...