They Bought a Treatment Plant, then Started Pumping Operations

Indiana’s Jeff Johnson bought a World War II-era industrial complex with its own wastewater treatment plant. Naturally, he bought a vacuum truck and started cleaning septic tanks and portable restrooms.
They Bought a Treatment Plant, then Started Pumping Operations
The Johnson Johns & Septic Service crew includes, from left, Harlem Fifeld, Jim Surgeon, Ted Knibbs, Jeff Johnson, Derek Johnson, Josh Ohime and Don Holloway. (Photos by Michael Caterinas)

In 2001, Jeff Johnson started Johnson Johns & Septic Service out of necessity more than anything. A few years prior he had purchased a struggling utility company serving an industrial park in Kingsbury, Indiana. Johnson spent millions upgrading the utility company’s aging...

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