Case CX-47 mini-excavator which I bought last year has seen a lot of use in sewer hookups in the West Hamburg area of Tilden Township. This photo was taken last fall, but the work of converting about 300 homes and businesses from on-lot septic systems to the Hamburg Sewer Authority was suspended over the winter and resumed this spring. A serious financial blow to many landowners, the mandatory conversion has provided work for a number of excavating contractors at a time when new residential construction has been at a standstill.