Septic System Installation & Repair in Orchidland Estates, HI

Installation & Repair in Orchidland Estates

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 Orchidland Estates

Orchidland Estates sits mauka of Keaau between Highway 130 and Highway 11, a big agricultural subdivision of mostly three-acre lots on rising ground, with Orchidland Drive, Laniuma Drive and Pohaku Drive carrying traffic in from the highways and a web of unpaved roads behind them. It is wetter and greener than HPP, with ohia forest, orchid and anthurium farms, and homes tucked back behind long driveways where a visitor can drive past the house twice. Every one of those homes is on catchment and on its own wastewater system, cesspools on the older places and septic on the newer. The ground is young lava under a thin layer of forest duff that holds water like a sponge, so pits here stay wet, and three acres of trees means roots and lava tubes are both in play when a conversion is designed. Orchidland also has a lot of part-time and off-grid owners, people who are there a few months a year and whose cesspool sits idle and then gets a full house. We pump, inspect, convert and repair in Orchidland regularly. Tell us the road, how to find the driveway, and what the system is doing, and we will come prepared 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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