SC judge refused to order DHEC and now SC Department of Environmental Services to consider subdivisions rather than deciding ...

Charleston Waterkeeper, Coastal Conservation League lost effort to make DES use logic to review septic systems, but judge ...

Three workers died after they inhaled a toxic gas while cleaning a septic tank at a factory in Gujarat's Ahmedabad city on Friday (May 16, 2025), police said. The workers were cleaning an ...

More than half of 1,400 domestic septic tanks inspected by local authorities last year failed to meet the required standard. The Environmental Protection Agency said this is a real concern because ...

Over half of septic tanks inspected last year failed the test, putting householders’ health and the environment at risk, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns in its latest report on ...

Emergency workers enter the septic tank to rescue the two-year-old boy. [Photo/Official WeChat account of Xinhua News Agency] A two-year-old boy was rescued from a narrow septic tank in Guyuan ...

That 2018 call for a missing child is now a yearly warning from San Juan County Fire and Rescue about the dangers of unsecured septic tanks. “Over the course of several minutes being on scene ...

A federal judge ordered Florida to reinstate a manatee feeding program and halt new septic tank permits near the Indian River Lagoon. The order mandates Florida to apply for an Incidental Take ...

More than half of home septic tanks inspected last year were not working properly, raising fears that dirty toilet and sink water is escaping untreated into gardens and rivers. Latest data from ...

The Waco Plan Commission is recommending the city bump up the minimum lot size require for a septic tank, citing a desire to protect drinking water sources. Because of the availability of sewer ...

For too long Ireland has had a poor record in making sure septic tanks operate properly and don’t pollute their environs. This is not an isolated problem with holiday homes in remote places ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Lowcountry environmental groups are celebrating a recent ruling by a circuit court judge about building large-scale septic tank systems. The court ordered that public notice ...