Septic System Installation & Repair in Pahoa, HI

Installation & Repair in Pahoa

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 Pahoa

Pahoa is the main street of lower Puna, an old plantation town of raised wooden storefronts where Highway 130 ends and the roads to Kalapana, Pohoiki and Kapoho begin. Everything around it is unsewered. Nanawale Estates and Leilani Estates to the east, Kalapana Seaview Estates toward the coast, the farm lots along Highway 132 and the homes scattered up the old lava flows all run on a cesspool or a septic system, and most of them catch their own rainwater. Lower Puna is also where the 2018 eruption rewrote the map: Leilani Estates lost whole streets, Kapoho and its tide pools are gone, and the rebuilding that followed went in on new septic systems because new construction cannot use a cesspool. That leaves Pahoa with the full spread of what we do, from pumping a forty-year-old pit behind a plantation house to installing a permitted system on a fresh lot, with home-sale inspections in between as the area turns over. The ground here is some of the youngest on the island, a mix of a‘a that drains like a sieve and pahoehoe that will not take a shovel, which shapes every conversion. We work Pahoa and the subdivisions around it every week. Tell us the subdivision and the road and we will give you a straight answer and a real price.

• 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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