Cesspool & Septic Inspections in Hawaiian Paradise Park, HI

Inspections in Hawaiian Paradise Park

Almost every home sale on this side of the island involves a cesspool or a septic system, and almost every buyer, agent and lender now wants it pumped and inspected before closing. We inspect cesspools and septic systems for buyers, sellers and owners across Hilo, Puna and the Hamakua coast. For a cesspool we locate and open the pit, pump it down so we can see the walls and the floor, watch how fast it refills, check the inlet and the cover, and note how close it sits to the catchment tank and the property lines. For a septic system we open the tank, measure sludge and scum, check baffles, lids and risers, run water from the house to see how it handles flow, and walk the leach field or seepage bed for wet ground or odor. You get a plain written summary of what you have, what condition it is in, and what it will need, so a buyer can decide with open eyes, a seller can hand over proof, and nobody is arguing about a wastewater system the week before closing.

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.

• Inspections for buyers, sellers, agents and owners
• Cesspool pumped and the walls, floor and refill rate checked
• Septic tank opened, sludge and scum measured, baffles and lids checked
• Flow test run from the house to see how the system handles a load
• Leach field or seepage bed walked for wet ground and odor
• Clear written summary for the buyer, the seller and the lender

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