HOOKSTOWN, Pa. — A district attorney says a 4-year-old boy could have moved the lid off a western Pennsylvania septic tank where he was found dead earlier this month. Beaver County District ...

Manual scavenging has been officially banned since 1993. However, due to the nature of the practice and the lack of robust ...

Q What can I do about the clogged leaching lines in my 38-year-old septic system? There’s some pooling of sewage on the surface of the ground. Septic systems work by pre-digesting sewage in an ...

And on the other side of that big window, I am told that there is a plumber looking at the septic system. The other day, he got a handle on what ... So this 1,000-gallon tank is no longer large ...

Rain sends plumes pulsing from septic tank drain fields to the lagoon, fueling algae blooms, fish kills and other marine deaths and diseases. Scientists estimate 300,000 septic tanks are in the ...

County commissioners have given final approval to strict septic tank rules designed to reduce the flow of harmful nitrogen and phosphorus into the Indian River Lagoon. Through its 5-0 vote on ...

If you’re planning to build in a rural area or somewhere without access to a central sewer system, installing a septic ... the tank is installed in a location that’s easily accessible for maintenance ...

Heavy rainfall and flooding can lead to problems with septic tank backups, meaning sewage can flow back into homes. Officials with the Cape Girardeau County Health Center say there are some things ...

Some keywords and phrases: Main line: The underground pipe that connects the plumbing system in your home to the septic tank outside. Sinks, bathtubs, showers, and toilets all drain into the ...

The decomposed body of a young woman, hidden in a septic tank, has been retrieved by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) at Sunyani Magazine. This follows preliminary reports suggesting that ...

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Upon returning, while walking over the corroded steel lid of the septic tank, the lid gave away, causing her to fall inside the tank and suffocate to death. As she failed to return to her ...