Many, if not most homes, in Sterling use a passive onsite wastewater treatment system consisting of a single compartment septic tank and a trench/bed subsurface wastewater (Pipe-In-Stone) infiltration ...

Septic tanks are a lot easier to understand than you might think. If you have only ever relied on city water and sewer systems, transitioning to a home with a septic tank might seem a bit overwhelming ...

Around one-fifth of the U.S. population uses septic tanks to treat wastewater from their homes. Because the microorganisms that break down the tanks' waste produce greenhouse gases including methane, ...

In rural, coastal areas, rising groundwater is flooding people's properties from underneath, causing septic tanks to fail. States are responding, but it could be a losing battle in some places. Sixty ...