Septic System Installation & Repair in Hawaiian Beaches, HI

Installation & Repair in Hawaiian Beaches

New construction in East Hawaii goes in on a septic system, not a cesspool, and plenty of the systems already in the ground are reaching the age where parts fail. We install and repair septic systems across Hilo, Puna and the Hamakua coast. On the installation side we handle new homes and ohana units, the rebuilds that followed the 2018 eruption in lower Puna, and replacement systems for homes whose old cesspool or field has given out: the site evaluation, the Department of Health permit, the excavation in lava, the tank, the leach field or seepage bed on imported fill, and the inspection. On the repair side we fix what actually breaks: cracked lids and collapsed baffles, sewer lines crushed by rock settlement or invaded by roots, distribution boxes that send everything to one line, failed effluent pumps on lots that lift uphill, and leach fields that have gone wet. We find the real problem before we dig, because excavating lava to fix the wrong thing is an expensive mistake.

Cesspool and septic service in Hawaiian Beaches

Hawaiian Beaches sits on the Puna coast north of Pahoa, a subdivision of modest lots along Kahakai Boulevard on streets named for fish, with Hawaiian Shores next door and the ocean a short walk makai. It is low, close to sea level, and warm, with trade-wind rain instead of the upland deluges, and it is one of the more affordable neighborhoods in Puna, which means a steady flow of first-time buyers and a lot of long-held family homes. Nearly every house is on catchment, and nearly every house is on a cesspool or a septic system. The lots are smaller than the acre and three-acre subdivisions inland, so the house, the catchment tank, the cesspool and the neighbor’s cesspool all sit close together, and the coastal rock holds groundwater near the surface. That combination makes Hawaiian Beaches the place where a cesspool is most likely to fill from below, and where a conversion has to be designed carefully to fit the setbacks on a small lot, often with an aerobic treatment unit instead of a full leach field. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems in Hawaiian Beaches and Hawaiian Shores regularly. Tell us the street and what the system is doing and we will quote it straight.

• New septic systems for new builds, rebuilds and ohana units
• Permit, design coordination and Department of Health inspection handled
• Leach fields and seepage beds built on approved fill over lava
• Baffles, lids, risers and distribution boxes replaced
• Cracked, settled and root-filled sewer lines repaired
• Effluent pumps, floats and alarms tested and replaced

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