Entries Tagged California

Four years after establishing his company in the Northern California suburb of Rancho Cordova, Bill Heinselman was stunned when he was offered...

Sand leeching into a corroded 4-inch cast iron lateral caused sewage backups into a restaurant (which had to close), a check cashing...

Some industrial wastewater lines at a food processing plant in San Jose, Calif., were too small to handle the volume and others...

In 2012, the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) in Calif., entered its 20th year of a 25-year project to replace 75...

An old adage says you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Mark and Candace Bonney, the co-owners...

Within three years of opening Leading Edge Plumbing & Rooter, owner Juan Carlos Garcia had significantly boosted his business by bringing in...

Puddles alongside the front porch of a three-bedroom home in Sunnyvale, Calif., indicated a leak in the waterline. Since the spigot was...

In the middle of the grape-harvesting season at the Charles Krug Winery in St. Helena, Calif., workers washing 40,000-gallon fermenting tanks and...

It may seem unusual for a commercial fisherman and a stay-at-home mom to turn their lives upside down to start a plumbing...

For years, sewage discharging from cleanouts affected as many as 40 properties at the 650-unit Millpond mobile home park in San Jose,...

Remember those Andre Agassi commercials for Canon cameras with the tagline, “Image is everything?”Mark Bonney agrees, and that’s why the 22 service...

A new complex of condominiums on a hill in Daly City, Calif., would increase sewage flows and overwhelm the 800-foot-long, 8-inch vitreous...