SANDWICH — On the southeastern edge of Joint Base Cape Cod, at an unassuming spot between the Francis A. Crane Wildlife Management Area and Otis Air National Guard Base, experimentation is taking ...

Not all toilet paper is septic-safe. Learn about the types that can cause clogs and water backups, and discover alternatives ...

Wet season percolation testing will begin Monday in Anne Arundel County. Applications for mound sewage disposal systems must have been received Tuesday with testing performed by March 17. All other ...

The Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (MASSTC) in Sandwich has received nearly $3.3 million in state and federal funds to expand its wastewater research facility. Pollution from ...

LANSING, MI — Michigan has debated for decades but never passed a uniform statewide septic code — an abject governance failure that continually threatens public health and the environment, say ...

MARSTONS MILLS — Two septic tanks may be better than one, at least when the second tank can do what the first won't. The Sandy Shores neighborhood along the shore of Shubael Pond will help test for ...

As Jennifer Loughran led a tour of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s Shubael Pond Project, she called a newly installed NitROE wastewater treatment septic system a “living laboratory.” “Maybe ...

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 ...