Summer events keep portable toilet rental companies in business.

Publication: Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Maine) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 Kennebec Journal

Byline: Larry Grard

Mar. 6--SKOWHEGAN -- Virtually every little town has a summer festival nowadays.

Outdoor weddings are more in vogue. Whitewater rafters flock to the upper Kennebec River valley, and recreation centers host huge summer tournaments.

The tens of thousands who attend these events and the few who might live in a home with a backed-up sewer line or frozen pipes are no different from anyone else. They need a bathroom from time to time.

For those reasons, the portable toilet rental business is thriving. Gone are the days when people simply, and somehow, had to make do. There is money to be made in the "port-a-potty" business. And at Central Maine Septic of Skowhegan,...

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