Septic Tank Pumping & Cleaning in Kurtistown, HI

Septic Pumping in Kurtistown

If your home is one of the newer builds or converted systems on this side of the island, you have a septic tank instead of a cesspool, and it needs pumping just the same. Solids settle to the bottom of the tank, grease and scum float to the top, and the clear liquid in between flows out to a leach field or seepage bed in the lava. Pumping removes the solids and scum before they can wash out and clog the field, which is the expensive part of the system and the hardest part to rebuild in rock. We pump and clean septic tanks across Hilo, Puna and the Hamakua coast. We locate and open the tank, pump it down completely, break up and remove the packed sludge rather than skimming the liquid, check the inlet and outlet baffles and the lids, and give you a realistic interval based on your tank size and household. Converted cesspool systems, vacation rentals around Volcano and Hilo, and homes bought with no service history are the ones that most often need the full cleaning rather than a quick pump.

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.

• Complete tank pump-out: solids, scum and liquid
• Packed sludge and hardened scum broken up and removed when needed
• Inlet and outlet baffles and lids checked while the tank is open
• Tank located and dug to the lids on homes with no records
• Realistic pumping schedule for your tank size and household
• Risers recommended where lids are buried deep in cinder or fill

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