Septic System Installation & Repair in Honomu, HI

Installation & Repair in Honomu

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 Honomu

Honomu is the little plantation town at the turnoff to Akaka Falls, a single main street of raised wooden storefronts just off Highway 19 about ten miles north of Hilo, with camp houses behind it, Hakalau and its bay a few minutes north, and the road to the falls climbing mauka through old cane land and gulches. The town is unsewered and so is everything around it. The old houses on the main street and the camp lots are on cesspools from the sugar days; the farm parcels and newer homes up the Akaka Falls road and toward Hakalau are a mix of cesspools and septic, and the conversions are adding to the septic side every year. The ground is Hamakua ground, real soil over old lava, cut by deep gulches that carry serious water in a storm, and the rain here is heavy and steady through the winter. Honomu is small enough that the pump truck is a familiar sight, and the mix of long-time families, visitors passing through to the falls, and newcomers restoring a plantation house keeps us busy with pump-outs, inspections for the houses that change hands, and conversions planned ahead of the state deadline. We work Honomu, Hakalau and the Akaka Falls road regularly. Tell us where you are 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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