Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Hawaiian Paradise Park, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Hawaiian Paradise Park

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 Paradise Park

Hawaiian Paradise Park, HPP to everyone who lives there, is one of the largest subdivisions in the state: a grid of one-acre lots running from Highway 130 down to the sea cliffs at Kaloli Point, with Paradise Drive, Makuu Drive and Kaloli Drive as its spines and dozens of numbered avenues between them. The roads are private and maintained by the owners’ association, nearly every house is on rainwater catchment, and nearly every house is on its own wastewater system: cesspools on the older homes, septic systems on the newer builds and the conversions. The land is flat pahoehoe and a‘a with little soil, and the lower avenues near the coast sit close enough to sea level that a cesspool there can take on groundwater and fill from below. HPP has grown fast with mainland buyers drawn to an acre of land near Hilo, which means a steady run of home sales, each wanting a pump-out and an inspection, and a lot of new owners who are learning what a cesspool is and what the state deadline means for it. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems up and down the avenues every week. Tell us the avenue and the cross street and what the system is doing, and we will 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

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