Septic Tank Pumping & Cleaning in Mountain View, HI

Septic Pumping in Mountain View

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 Mountain View

Mountain View is the upper Puna village on Highway 11 at about 1,500 feet, where the rainforest closes in, the air turns cool, and the subdivisions behind it, Fern Acres, Fern Forest, Eden Roc and the upper reaches of Hawaiian Acres, stretch back into some of the wettest country on the island. The village has its old plantation core and a scattering of farms and nurseries along the highway, and nearly everything is on catchment and on its own wastewater system. This is where the rain is heaviest in our whole service area, in places well past 150 inches a year, and wastewater here lives with that. Cesspools sit in rock that is wet nearly all the time, fern forest holds water on the surface for days after a storm, and a pit that is also full of sludge has no margin at all. The subdivisions behind Mountain View also hold a lot of part-time, off-grid and newly arrived owners, on long unpaved roads, with systems that came with no paperwork. We pump, inspect, convert and repair systems in Mountain View and the subdivisions behind it, and we know what the roads are like after a week of rain. Tell us where you are 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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