Jet-Setting Entrepreneur
Sometimes entrepreneurs are successful enough to buy themselves sexy toys: It may just be a nice pool table for the office, or it might be that new Gulfstream jet bought with the IPO proceeds. But little did I know that entrepreneurial success would allow me to buy this beauty (click to enlarge):
This septic tank truck can really haul a load, carrying over 3800 gallons of, uh, poop.
We have a new facility at Pyramid Lake we run in LA County, where, due to its location, all the bathrooms run into series of underground holding tanks. At some point in the past, someone converted all the bathrooms into flush toilets, which in this area makes for a real waste of water and creates a lot of liquid waste we have to pump out and dispose of, at the cost of over $80,000 a year. This truck is the intermediate solution, letting us cut our pumpong costs in half. The long-term solution we are working with the US Forest Service on is to replace the bathrooms with a great composting technology from Bio-Sun, which will cut the waste and water use both to near zero.
