What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid ...

In this guide to septic systems, CR shares a detailed breakdown of the workings of a home septic system, with expert advice ...

Your day-to-day habits can impact the workings of this essential apparatus. Here are best practices to help keep things in ...

However, with a septic system, it flows through a pipe and settles into the tank chamber. Inside the tank, the heavier materials should sink to the bottom, which creates a thick sludge.

There are about 1.35 million individual septic tanks nationwide and most of these individual septic tanks may have been over 40 years old, without the attention of the homeowners.

The City of Tshwane's Emergency Services Department's animal rescue team successfully freed a donkey trapped in a septic tank ...

For those that fail, the council want to also inform people that grants towards 85 per cent of its repair — to the tune of €12,000 — are available to ...

Through regular and proper desludging, we ensure that our household septic tanks are cleared out properly, thus preventing sludge overflowing that can cause the spread of waterborne diseases ...

The HomoSEP Robot can homogenise the hard sludge in septic tanks through custom-developed rotary blade mechanism and pump the tank slurry using an integrated suction mechanism. Sanitation workers ...