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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If your home isn't hooked up to a municipal sewer system, your alternative is a septic system, which includes a container buried ...

The U.S. septic industry serves roughly 21 million households, with about one in five American homes relying on septic systems rather than municipal sewer connections. Despite the size of the market, ...

more than 50 percent because a septic-waste disposal site in neighboring Amador County is running out of room. Amador notified Calaveras recently that it was imposing a surcharge of 15 cents per ...

Carroll homeowners using private septic systems will soon pay three times more to have them pumped out and cleaned than do residents in surrounding counties. The county’s first septic waste treatment ...