Septic System Installation & Repair in Kurtistown, HI

Installation & Repair in Kurtistown

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 Kurtistown

Kurtistown is the old plantation village along Highway 11 between Keaau and Mountain View, a short strip of homes, churches and a post office with Hawaiian Acres opening up behind it on the mauka side and Orchidland on the Keaau side. The village itself is a mix of plantation-era houses on small lots and newer homes on the agricultural parcels around it, and like all of upper Puna it is unsewered and on catchment. The old houses are on cesspools that have been in the rock for generations; the newer builds and the conversions are on septic. Kurtistown is also the funnel for the two big subdivisions behind it, so the roads see a lot of traffic and the homeowners here are used to being the address where the pump truck turns off the highway. The ground is young lava under a thin, wet skin of soil, and the rainfall climbs as you head up the highway, so a pit in Kurtistown drains better than one deep in Hawaiian Acres but still stays damp most of the year. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems in Kurtistown and the lots around it. Tell us where you are on the highway and what the system is doing, and we will come ready and 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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