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Rick Jonas visits with John Deere 470 excavator operator Don Stephenson at the quarry owned by A-Affordable Septic Service.
Rick Jonas and his team install about 80 onsite treatment systems a year and pump up to 800 septic tanks for homes in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, stretching 150 miles south from Portland and where 70% of the state’s residents live.
But residential systems are not the main...