Septic Systems Installation

Are you building a new home that has no city water or sewer?

Did your existing septic system recently fail a real estate inspection?

Is your drain field saturated?

Do you simply have no idea what is wrong with your septic system?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you should call us for more information.

Charlie at C.E. Corey Septic Service: 603-673-4058

What Septic Tanks Do

The two most common myths on the subject of septic system function are that the septic tank treats the sewage, and that the soil filters the remaining particles out of the effluent creating pure water underground.
In fact the septic tank is merely a concrete box that holds roughly two days of sewage. In the calm environment of the tank, dirt and solids settle out and fall to the bottom. Grease and lighter particles from the sewage float to the top. The septic tank works like a gravy boat delivering sewage effluent to the drain field or leach field and storing indigestible bits for pumping out every few years. Numerous anaerobic (water breathing) bacteria continue working to reduce some of the strength of the sewage, but not much treatment happens in the septic tank.

The human gut is an anaerobic (liquid) environment similar to that in the tank. The most hazardous materials in sewage are pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria and viruses from the human waste.
The separated liquid containing the dissolved sewage solids, effluent flows out of the septic tank through a pipe into the drain field. Here it spreads over the floor of the drain field trench. Now the real treatment takes place. Millions of aerobic (air breathing) bacteria live in the soil (30 million or so organisms live in a teaspoon of soil).  The aerobic bacteria thrive in the area of the trenches and await the sewage effluent, their food source. These necessary creatures will eventually consume all organic material in the sewage, and everything in sewage is organic. Ain't nature cool.

In a municipal sewage treatment plant, these same basic bacteria are doing the work of municipal sewage treatment.

From a small pipe repair to a drain field restoration, CE Corey Septic Systems has the knowledge, equipment, and manpower needed to diagnose the problem, provide you with options, and get the job done quickly.

License Requirements for Septic System Contractors

Professional septic system installers and designers must get a permit from the state before they can design or install a septic system in New Hampshire. Repair or replacement of an existing septic system requires a permit as well. If you are a homeowner and you want to design, install, replace, or repair a septic system on your own primary residence, you may do so without a permit.

Septic system designers are required to pass both written and field exams before they can receive a license in New Hampshire. Septic installers are required to pass a written exam before they can receive a license. Exams are held 4 times a year. In addition, both installers and designers must file an application for a permit and pay a $40 licensing fee each year.

Installing a new Septic System

Many towns have their own requirements when it comes installing a new septic system. For example, in Salem, NH, your septic design must be approved by the town before it is forwarded for a separate approval process by the state. A permit must be purchased from the town, and town engineers must be present during initial tests and before the completed system is backfilled.

We can help with Septic system design- Choosing Septic Tank Size, Drain Field Size, Weather you need a

• New septic tank or repair.
  
• How to specify type size of a septic tank
  
• How to specify the size of a septic drain field
  
• Septic system design basics

Commercial and Residential

Septic Tank Installation and Inspection

Septic System Repair

Baffles Repaired or Replaced

Grease Traps

Septic Design

Our Excavation Service

If you are a home owner or builder we offer professional excavation service with over 25 years experience we can handle all for all your needs.

We provide a full line of excavation and aggregate services, including site development, residential and commercial site work, road construction, underground water, stump removal, storm and sewer systems and dredging. Clearing, road construction, underground water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, house site preparation. Land clearing, road & parking construction, underground water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, excavation, backfill, retaining walls, land clearing, basements, backfill, septic systems, retaining walls and driveways.

Subdivisions

• Commercial Site Work
  
• Residential Site Work
  
• Septic Systems
  
• Roads
  
• Break walls
  
• Rock Hammering
  
• Dredging
  
• Demolition

Dig Safe Laws and Rules

Excavation" means "excavation" as defined in RSA 374:48, III, namely, "any operation
conducted on private property or in a public way, right-of-way, easement, public street, or other public place, in which earth, rock, or other material in the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced by means of any tools, equipment, or explosive, and includes but is not limited to drilling, grading, boring, milling, trenching, tunneling, scraping, tree and root removal, cable or pipe plowing, fence or sign post installation, pile driving, wrecking, razing, rending or moving any structure or mass material, but does not include the tilling of soil for agricultural purposes, landscaping and maintenance of residential property performed with non-mechanized equipment, landscaping activities performed with mechanized equipment that are intended to cut vegetation, including lawn edging, aeration, and de-thatching, excavations permitted or grand fathered under RSA 155-E, or replacement of department-of-transportation-installed delineator posts in the same location."

For complete laws and rules: Go to http://www.digsafe.com/laws_statelaws.htm

We service Brookline, Hollis, Amherst, Mason, Milford, Mont Vernon, Wilton, Lyndeborough, Merrimack, Nashua, New Ipswich, Greenville all the area towns around us.