Posts by Jeremy Howard
Building Scalable Sewers for Small Towns
When wastewater infrastructure can be delivered on demand, developers can build scalable distributed sewer the way they build roads and give it to the community. Piperton, TN, a small town with a new highway exchange east of Memphis, also recognized the potential in the distributed approach to sewer. The town wanted development, however, its small…
Read MoreTown Converts Onsite Systems to Modular Sewer and Dramatically Raises Property Values
On West Island in Fairhaven Massachusetts were 400 pre-war cottages on 5000 square foot lots. Each cottage had its own cesspool and well. The soils of dense glacial till were so poor that no further development was permitted and the rest of the island was given to the State. Eventually, the 400 cottages received electrical…
Read MoreScalable Distributed Sewer: Infrastructure With the Capacity to Pay For Itself
It is Aquapoint’s premise that the ability to deliver scalable, compliant wastewater treatment on a just in time basis dramatically increases the ability of communities to design municipal sewers in ways that are more affordable and even capital forming. A case in point: Two selectmen in a Massachusetts coastal town resisted the suggestion that a…
Read MoreCommunities and Their Wastewater Management From Predicament to Prospects
We are at the end of an infrastructure cycle and the beginning of a new policy era. Wastewater is no longer a pollutant; it is now a resource. The dilemma we face now is that the regulatory governing systems for wastewater as a pollutant are not sufficient to realize the inherent potential of managing wastewater…
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