Every job below is performed by an independent company certified by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. We are a referral 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.
No price is published on this site, and that is the same discipline every other claim here follows. Every regulatory statement on these pages traces to a cited rule with the date it was read. A cost range has no equivalent source, so rather than assert one, this site describes what actually drives the number.
For an inspection or a pump-out: whether the tank lids are already exposed or have to be located and dug out, the system type, since a proprietary treatment unit takes far longer than a tank and gravity drainfield, whether a pump is needed at the same visit, and travel, which matters at the county edges because Eatonville, Roy, Wilkeson and Carbonado are a long way from the companies clustered nearer Tacoma. For a repair or a replacement: whether the ground supports a conventional drainfield or forces a mound, pressure or treatment system, which is the difference between two very different projects.
The company that comes out prices it after seeing the system, and season matters too, since spring and summer are the busy listing months here. Booking outside the spring and summer listing rush, and having the lids located before the visit, are the two things within your control that move a quote.
Calls and form submissions reach Compass Camper LLC directly. We read the request and pass it to an independent local septic company certified by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, usually within about an hour during the day. That company then contacts you to look at the system and price the work on their own schedule.
Septic inspection, tank pumping, operation and maintenance, drainfield repair and replacement, system installation, design and site evaluation, and records lookup. See every service.
Only the certified company we send your request to can price your actual system. Compass Camper LLC does not perform septic work and does not quote it.
Your request goes straight to an on-site sewage professional certified by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department and serving Pierce County, usually within about an hour during the day, not a national lead list.
Prefer to talk? Call (253) 367-7679.