For roughly 7,000 rural communities, facultative lagoons are the answer to sewage waste. Why? These rural areas lack access to the intricate sewage waste pipe systems and cleaning facilities used in larger cities – primarily because they lack the infrastructure budgets to create such things. Unfortunately, they end up ultimately facing another issue. How do…
If your town has a shallow retention pond of less than ten feet deep, you probably haven’t given it much thought. Unfortunately, this could prove disastrous since forgoing proper shallow retention pond cleaning and maintenance can lead to serious health and environmental concerns. What are retention ponds used for? Retention ponds are one of the…
If your community has a shallow facultative lagoon, then you need to be aware of how easily sewage lagoon problems can develop. According to the EPA, there are over 7,000 of these lagoons in the United States, and unfortunately, many of them become overrun with sludge and algae every year. When this happens, communities are…
“Shallow rural waste treatment systems are inexpensive and extremely effective until they’re not!” Small communities across rural America use shallow waste treatment systems called facultative lagoons to treat their waste. They are relatively inexpensive to build, cost virtually nothing to operate and run out of sight and out of mind for a long time. Unfortunately,…