With blue-gloved hands, cesspool professional Salvatore Motta fed an endoscopic camera through the basement house trap of a ranch-style home in Smithtown. The cesspool appeared original to the house, ...

The Wellfleet Board of Health is working on regulations that would require owners of central district properties with cesspools and failing septic systems to upgrade ...

A proposed Suffolk County law would require homeowners to replace failing cesspools with septic tanks starting in 2019 as the county begins an overhaul of how it regulates wastewater systems. The ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Dec. 18 paused the proposed development of a new community in Awendaw that would have brought about 200 septic tank-dependent homes across 182 acres on the town’s ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Companies that pump cesspools and septic tanks are scrambling to catch up on emergency calls. “We’re just going to pick up the pieces and start from square one. That ...

Roger Babcock Jr., a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and one of the researchers on the draft final report on “Investigation of Cesspool Upgrade Alternatives in Upcountry Maui,” speaks ...

HILO — Cesspool and septic tank owners would be charged a new fee to pay for water quality monitoring, under a bill moving through the state Legislature that’s part of Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s “New Day ...