Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Hawaiian Acres, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Hawaiian Acres

Hawaii has set a deadline for every cesspool in the state to be converted or closed, and nowhere does that land harder than East Hawaii, where whole subdivisions were built on cesspools drilled into the lava. A conversion means closing the pit and installing a permitted individual wastewater system in its place: typically a septic tank with a leach field or seepage bed, or an aerobic treatment unit where the lot is too small or too wet for a conventional field. We handle cesspool-to-septic conversions across Hilo, Puna and the Hamakua coast, from the site evaluation and the design that the Department of Health requires through the excavation, the tank and field installation, and the final inspection. Lava changes everything about this work. There is little or no soil, so most fields here are built on imported fill, and a lot that looks flat and easy may sit on a lava tube or on pahoehoe that will not break without a hammer. We look at your lot first, tell you which system actually fits it, and give you a real number before anything is dug.

Cesspool and septic service in Hawaiian Acres

Hawaiian Acres is one of the big upland Puna subdivisions, a grid of three-acre lots stretching from Highway 11 near Kurtistown back into the ohia and hapuu fern forest toward Mountain View, laid out on numbered and lettered roads that are mostly unpaved and maintained by the people who live on them. It is high, cool and wet, well over a hundred inches of rain a year, and it has a strong off-grid streak: catchment water everywhere, solar on many roofs, and homes that range from plantation-style houses to cabins at the end of a half-mile cinder driveway. Every one is on a cesspool or a septic system of its own. The ground is young lava under forest floor, and the deeper roads see the most rain and the slowest drainage, so a cesspool back on Road 8 behaves differently from one near the highway. Hawaiian Acres also has a lot of newer owners who bought cheap acreage and are now sorting out what a cesspool is, how the state deadline affects them, and whether the pit behind the house will pass an inspection when they sell. We pump, inspect, convert and repair in Hawaiian Acres regularly, and we know the roads. Tell us the road, how to find the lot, and what the system is doing, and we will come ready and quote it straight.

• Site evaluation and system recommendation for your lot and household
• Design and Department of Health permit handled for you
• Septic tank with leach field or seepage bed, or an aerobic treatment unit where needed
• Raised beds on imported fill for lots with no native soil
• Old cesspool pumped, closed and filled to code
• Final inspection and the paperwork a buyer or lender asks for

Need cesspool conversion elsewhere? See all of our Hawaiian Acres services or cesspool conversion across East Hawaii.