Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Orchidland Estates, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Orchidland Estates

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 Orchidland Estates

Orchidland Estates sits mauka of Keaau between Highway 130 and Highway 11, a big agricultural subdivision of mostly three-acre lots on rising ground, with Orchidland Drive, Laniuma Drive and Pohaku Drive carrying traffic in from the highways and a web of unpaved roads behind them. It is wetter and greener than HPP, with ohia forest, orchid and anthurium farms, and homes tucked back behind long driveways where a visitor can drive past the house twice. Every one of those homes is on catchment and on its own wastewater system, cesspools on the older places and septic on the newer. The ground is young lava under a thin layer of forest duff that holds water like a sponge, so pits here stay wet, and three acres of trees means roots and lava tubes are both in play when a conversion is designed. Orchidland also has a lot of part-time and off-grid owners, people who are there a few months a year and whose cesspool sits idle and then gets a full house. We pump, inspect, convert and repair in Orchidland regularly. Tell us the road, how to find the driveway, and what the system is doing, and we will come prepared 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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