Every job below is performed by an independent company certified by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. We are a matching service and we do not perform septic work.
Selling a home with a septic system
Pierce County asks for a Report of System Status when a property on a septic system changes hands. The inspection is arranged by the owner with a certified company, and the Health Department reviews and issues the report.
Finding the paperwork for your system
As-built drawings, permits, and past inspection records tell you where the tank and drainfield are and what type of system you own. Knowing that before an inspection saves time and locate fees.
Routine and transfer inspections
Washington requires inspection at least every three years for a tank-and-gravity system and annually for every other type, performed by a third party authorized by the local health officer.
Scheduled and pre-inspection pumping
Pumping removes accumulated solids before they reach the drainfield. It is also done at the time of a property-transfer inspection in Pierce County.
When the soil absorption system fails
A drainfield that surfaces effluent or backs up has stopped absorbing. Replacement is the largest expense a septic property faces and it is permitted work.
New and replacement systems
A new or replacement system needs a site evaluation, a design, and a permit before installation begins. Pierce County soils vary enough that the design drives the cost.
Soil logs, design, and permitting
A designer evaluates soil and site conditions, then produces the drawing the Health Department reviews. Glacial outwash and till behave very differently in Pierce County.
Keeping a system in compliance
Proprietary and alternative systems carry an annual inspection obligation. An operation and maintenance specialist performs the inspection and files the report.
Your request goes to an on-site sewage professional certified by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and serving Pierce County, not a national lead list.
The request form is not accepting submissions yet. This site is new and the intake line is still being set up. Until it is live, nothing is collected here, because a form that renders but delivers nowhere is worse than no form at all.
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