Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Mountain View, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Mountain View

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 Mountain View

Mountain View is the upper Puna village on Highway 11 at about 1,500 feet, where the rainforest closes in, the air turns cool, and the subdivisions behind it, Fern Acres, Fern Forest, Eden Roc and the upper reaches of Hawaiian Acres, stretch back into some of the wettest country on the island. The village has its old plantation core and a scattering of farms and nurseries along the highway, and nearly everything is on catchment and on its own wastewater system. This is where the rain is heaviest in our whole service area, in places well past 150 inches a year, and wastewater here lives with that. Cesspools sit in rock that is wet nearly all the time, fern forest holds water on the surface for days after a storm, and a pit that is also full of sludge has no margin at all. The subdivisions behind Mountain View also hold a lot of part-time, off-grid and newly arrived owners, on long unpaved roads, with systems that came with no paperwork. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems in Mountain View and the subdivisions behind it, and we know what the roads are like after a week of rain. Tell us where you are 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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