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Wyatt Alm agitates the contents of a septic tank during a pumpout.
Unlike many small-business owners, Karl Alm had a succession plan from the day he launched his septic pumping enterprise in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. “I started Alm & Son as soon as I knew I was having a son,” Alm says. That was in 1994. Wyatt Alm, 24, now works alongside...
