Septic Repair
Backups, wet ground over the drainfield and sewage odors mean a part of the system has failed. We dig it up, find the cause and repair or replace what quit working.
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We install new septic systems and full replacements for homes and small commercial properties. Based in Milford, licensed and insured, with free estimates across the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York corner.
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New septic systems are our main work, and we also handle septic system repair when one fails. We handle excavation, drainage, land clearing, site prep, retaining walls, sewer line repair and soil remediation with our own equipment.
Backups, wet ground over the drainfield and sewage odors mean a part of the system has failed. We dig it up, find the cause and repair or replace what quit working.
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We handle general excavation for homes and commercial sites around Milford: foundation and basement digs, footings, trenches and rock ledge. We run our own excavators and equipment, so the dig, the backfill and the compaction stay with one company.
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We install French drains, curtain drains, catch basins and culverts, and regrade wet ground. Exterior stormwater drainage for homes and commercial properties around Milford.
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We clear wooded lots and acreage for homesites, septic areas, roads and building pads. Trees, brush, stumps and ledge come out with excavators and leave the site.
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Site prep and grading for new homes, barns and commercial buildings around Milford. We build pads, cut and fill, place stone base and put in private roads and access lanes.
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We build block and boulder retaining walls that hold slopes, cuts and fills on hillside lots. Proper base, drainage stone and pipe behind the wall, then backfill and compaction.
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We repair and replace sewer laterals by open trench, from the building wall out to the sewer main. Broken, collapsed, root damaged and bellied lines come out, and new pipe goes in on a graded bed.
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We dig out contaminated soil after heating oil releases and spills. The material goes off to a permitted facility, then clean fill puts the site back.
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Most properties around Milford run on septic because public sewer reaches only a few places in the area. Putting in a new system starts as excavation work. We dig the soil test pits for the township sewage enforcement officer, and we install the design that gets approved. The permit and the design go through the township, and through a soil scientist or engineer where one is required.
Two system types cover most of the work here. A conventional system puts the absorption area down in the ground, where soil drains well and bedrock is deep. An elevated sand mound builds that absorption area above grade on a sand bed. The soil test decides which one a lot can take, and slow soil or shallow rock points to a mound.
We run our own excavators and equipment, so the dirt work around a new system stays with us. That covers the grading and site prep after the install and any stormwater drainage the lot needs. We work from Milford out about 25 miles, into Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
Meet Sawkill EnvironmentalA recent drainage job on a wooded lot. The trench was cut across the yard with the mini excavator, the ledge in its path was broken out with the hydraulic breaker, and the perforated pipe went in on clean stone inside a filter fabric lined trench.
Sawkill Environmental is licensed and insured, with Pennsylvania Home Improvement Contractor registration PA HIC #PA225040. That number is public, and you can look it up before you hire anyone.
We run our own excavators and equipment. That keeps the test pits, the install and the final grading on one schedule.
We work from Milford out about 25 miles. That covers Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania, Sussex in New Jersey, and Orange and Sullivan in New York.
Estimates are free. We come out, look at the property and tell you what the job needs. Call or text (973) 552-8580.
Call or text (973) 552-8580 for a free estimate on a new system or a full replacement. We are based in Milford and 5-star rated on Google.
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Based in Milford, PA, we work about 25 miles out across Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania, Sussex County in New Jersey, and Orange and Sullivan counties in New York.
From the first call or text to the final grading, here is how it goes.
Call or text (973) 552-8580 and tell us about the property. New builds, empty lots and failing systems all start here.
We come out and look at the property, the soil and where a system can fit. Estimates are free.
We dig the soil test pits. The township sewage enforcement officer runs the probes and the percolation tests, and approves the design. In New Jersey and New York, the county health department issues the permit.
Once the permit is issued, we set the tank and run the lines to the distribution box. Then we build the absorption area to the approved design. Conventional in-ground beds and elevated sand mounds are both common on lots around here.
The system gets inspected before anything is covered. In Pennsylvania the township sewage enforcement officer does that inspection. Then we backfill, grade the ground back out and clean up the site.
The questions Pike County, Sussex County and Orange County property owners ask us most. If yours is not here, call or text and we will answer it.
New septic system cost in Pennsylvania: conventional in-ground versus sand mound ranges for the Poconos, plus soil testing and permit costs.
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Septic repair or full replacement in Pennsylvania: the signs, what can be fixed, what the township requires, and published market cost ranges.
Read more →Tell us about the property and what you need done, and we will come back with a free estimate. You can also call or text (973) 552-8580.
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