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Ahead Sanitation Systems, Inc.

Full Speed Ahead

Ahead Sanitation Systems, Inc. is fast becoming a lead- ness and got into selling one of the most vital commodities ing manufacturer and distributor of marine sanitation sys- in the swamplands of South Louisiana: houseboats.

tems, products and supplies after more than two decades At that time, the state of Louisiana began to enforce a serving the industry. Those looking can ? nd an Ahead new set of laws concerning the dumping of raw and un-

Tank somewhere across all seven seas and most major riv- treated sewage into lakes and rivers. The new rules required ers and lakes in between. all camps and houseboat owners to ? nd some way to deal

Winton I. Rebouche, Jr., known to friends and cus- with the waste they were producing. While the state out- tomers as Boo Boo, is the founder and sole owner of the lined the problem and what had to be done, it did not spec-

Broussard, La.-based company. In the late ’80s, Boo Boo ify how to do it. Opportunity came knocking, and Boo Boo worked selling pipe couplings in South Louisiana’s boom- quickly took to designing and then manufacturing a sewage ing oil? eld industry and pioneered a technique to recycle treatment system for houseboats and camps, known as the old couplings with a machine of his own design. After the LUS-75 camp unit. His interest in ? nding an ef? cient way largest part of the oil? eld industry packed itself up and to treat human waste did not stop there, and he continued moved to Houston, Boo Boo decided to liquidate his busi- to brainstorm a way to rotary mold a polyethelene tank that

Ahead Sanitation regularly ships systems to customers outside of the

Unites States. Shown here are 14 systems destined for customers in Peru.

Ahead Sanitation Systems, Inc.

Ahead Sanitation Systems, Inc.

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