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Fitting the Pieces Together: A Guide to Office Operations for the Liquid Waste, Portable Toilet & Septic Pumping Industries |
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Septage management consists of those activities associated with handling the waste material removed from your customers’ locations. What this includes depends on where your business is located, what kind of material you handle and how you process the waste. A list of items that you might need to consider concerning septage or waste material can include:
The cost of septage disposal.
How the dump used affects the cost.
How the type of truck affects the cost.
Whether your price for service represents your cost of disposal.
State/county reporting requirements on septage source, i.e., what county the septage was picked up.
State/county reporting requirements on septage destination, i.e.,. where you dump, how much and what type of waste.
Federal reporting requirements.
Land waste disposal reporting requirements.
Availability of dump sites for different types of wastes, i.e., grease, etc.
Testing results, i.e., pH levels, heavy metal content, organics, etc.
Rules of dump operations, i.e., improper driving, poorly filled out dump tickets, etc.
Alternatives for managing septage tracking.
It is easy to see that this list can get very, very long. In this chapter we are going to focus on several of the items that can influence the costing of your business and your office operations needed to manage septage.