Cesspool to Septic Conversion in Pepeekeo, HI

Cesspool Conversion in Pepeekeo

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 Pepeekeo

Pepeekeo is the next town up the Hamakua coast from Papaikou, a former sugar town where the mill stack still stands by the highway and the camp houses line the old streets on the slope above the sea. Kulaimano, Sugar Mill Road and the lots along the scenic point and the old cane roads make up most of the homes, with farm parcels running mauka into the rain. Pepeekeo is unsewered, and the pattern is the same as the rest of the coast: cesspools under the plantation-era houses, septic systems under the newer homes and the conversions, catchment on some lots and county water on others. The soil here is real, deep in places and heavy with clay in others, over the old lava, and the coast gets its share of rain and trade-wind squalls that keep the ground damp through the winter. Pepeekeo has stayed a working town more than a resort one, with families who have been here since the mill and newer owners drawn by the views and the quiet, and both kinds of owner call us for the same things: a pump-out that is overdue, a pit that nobody has found, a sale that needs an inspection, or a conversion planned ahead of the state deadline. We work Pepeekeo and Kulaimano regularly. Tell us the 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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