Septic System Installation & Repair in Laupahoehoe, HI

Installation & Repair in Laupahoehoe

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 Laupahoehoe

Laupahoehoe is the northern edge of our service area, a former sugar town on Highway 19 about 25 miles up the Hamakua coast from Hilo, where the land runs out to Laupahoehoe Point, the old train museum sits by the highway, and Papaaloa and Ookala are the neighbors up and down the road. It is quiet, rural and spread out: camp houses in the old town, farm and ranch parcels across the former cane land, and homes along the bluffs with a long view of the ocean. There is no sewer here. The old houses are on cesspools from the plantation era, the farm homes and newer builds are on cesspools or septic, and the conversions are slowly adding to the septic side. The soil on this stretch of coast is deep and real over old lava, which makes a leach field more workable than in Puna, but the gulches are steep, the rain is heavy in winter, and the roads to some lots are long. Laupahoehoe is far enough from Hilo that not every company will make the drive for a single pump-out. We do, and we schedule the coast so the trip is worth it for everyone. Tell us where you are on the highway and what the system is doing, and we will quote it straight and give you a real time.

• 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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