Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Kurtistown, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Kurtistown

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 Kurtistown

Kurtistown is the old plantation village along Highway 11 between Keaau and Mountain View, a short strip of homes, churches and a post office with Hawaiian Acres opening up behind it on the mauka side and Orchidland on the Keaau side. The village itself is a mix of plantation-era houses on small lots and newer homes on the agricultural parcels around it, and like all of upper Puna it is unsewered and on catchment. The old houses are on cesspools that have been in the rock for generations; the newer builds and the conversions are on septic. Kurtistown is also the funnel for the two big subdivisions behind it, so the roads see a lot of traffic and the homeowners here are used to being the address where the pump truck turns off the highway. The ground is young lava under a thin, wet skin of soil, and the rainfall climbs as you head up the highway, so a pit in Kurtistown drains better than one deep in Hawaiian Acres but still stays damp most of the year. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems in Kurtistown and the lots around it. Tell us where you are on the highway 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

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