News & Alerts
Dishonorable Discharge?
 | Ontario pumpers and the provincial government butt heads over land application and future methods of septage disposal Ontario has two million septic tanks. In 2002, the provincial government passed a Nutrient Management Act, or NMA, forbidding the spreading of untreated septage on agricultural land by the end of 2005. The Ministry of the Environment, or MOE, told haulers to discharge their trucks at sewage treatment plants. |
Posted on November 26th
Septage Guidelines Submission to EBR 2008
Re: Draft Guide to Land Application of Treated Septage Alkaline Stabilization, Dewatering Trenches
Attention: Nina Koskenoja
We are a provincial Association established in 1991 to represent Septage Haulers, Installers, Pumpers, Manufactures and Professionals. Presently, we have over 250 members who work through out the Province of Ontario and Canada. Our role and responsibility is to look after the waste removal needs of our customers in rural Ontario...
Posted on November 19th
2008 OASIS Rural Waste Water Treatment Expo is getting bigger and better!
“Outstanding, exciting, stimulating” were the words used to describe the 2008
Posted on November 18th
How to Promote Your Business by Promoting Our Website
Now that our new OASIS website is finished being redesigned we need to find a way to promote it online. We need to bring more users onto our website so that they can find our members. In order to do this, we need to appear in Google search results under keywords that consumers in our industry may use...
Posted on November 16th
OASIS Board of Directors Updated
The OASIS Board of directors page has been updated with the new changes for 2008-2010. The new board of directors was elected at the Conference & Expo.
In addition to the new board of directors, we also have posted Biography pages for the following board members:
Posted on November 14th
Presentations and Photos from our Expo/Seminar 2008
The OASIS Conference was a success! Please have a look at our updated Expo & Conference page for new photos from this year. If you were not in attendance for the conference, there are also posted presentations which you may review.
Posted on November 14th
County releases growth strategy
The Province of Ontario laid down its 25-yeargrowth targets for the Golden Horseshoe in the Growth Plan for theGreater Golden Horseshoe adopted in 2006. The plan contains specificson where and how this area will grow and the infrastructure that may beneeded to support that growth.
In Northumberland, the population goal is 96,000 by 2031, anincrease of 16,000 from 2001...
Posted on October 28th