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Technician Steve Maxvill concentrates on digging a trench during a septic installation. (Photos by Brad Leeb)
Family company Smith Septic has been pumping septic tanks in central Illinois for decades. Now, with the third generation taking over, the company has expanded into a part of the wastewater business that it had previously ignored: installing.
Smith Septic started installing...