Are you a homeowner in the city of University Place, WA? Whether you’re close to the water near the Chambers Bay golf course, or nearer Fort Steilacoom, your home may be on septic. Whether you’ve had the septic tank pumped many times before or if you just moved in and haven’t had to get it serviced yet, we would love to provide you with excellent septic pumping and repair services. We offer reasonable pricing, excellent customer service, highly qualified and licensed technicians and timely service that goes above and beyond the expectations you may have from working with other septic companies. Our septic tank cleaning and repair services are top-notch, and we take pride in ensuring that your home septic system is working well. We know home septic can be difficult, but we believe in bringing safe sanitation to people everywhere. Whether you need a system repair, a drain field inspection, a routine tank cleaning, or an emergency sewage cleanup, we hope we’ll be your go-to septic pumper.
You might be surprised if you’re looking at homes in the University Place area and aren’t familiar with it: a lot of these houses are on septic, even in newer developments. A large part of why this is the case is because Pierce County, and University Place within it, is a rapidly growing area and city sewer systems take a lot of time to be developed and built. Simply put, even suburban style housing developments have been built in University Place, South Tacoma and Fircrest to support the massive growth long before government sewer systems could be used with them. While day-to-day usage of a home on septic is not any different from being on sewer, it brings a unique set of maintenance requirements that sewer doesn’t have due to the finite nature of septic tanks. Failure to maintain your septic tank can lead to some gross consequences; sewage backed up in home drains, or wastewater floods in the yard, for example. We recommend getting septic tank pumping done every three years to avoid strain on the septic system. You need a reliable septic pumping company that you can count on whether you need routine pumping, or if you have concerns about clogs, leaks, or worse.
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Our goal is to not just make a quick sale off you, but to be your go-to for decades to come or as long as you’re an owner of a home on septic. Our University Place septic tank pumping services are a public necessity, and we’re proud to help maintain a high standard of sanitation for people across Washington. We repair septic systems, do drain field repair, routine tank pumping, and more. Whether you’re a landlord trying to take care of your tenants, or live in the home on septic yourself, we’re here to help take care of septic issues and leave the house cleaner than we found it. We hope you’ll consider us your routine septic company, whether it’s for septic repair, tank pumping, or emergency sewage help. Call us today or visit our online contact form to schedule an appointment in University Place.
Every septic pump-out in Pierce County is filed with the health department, which means we can say what actually happens in University Place rather than repeat a rule of thumb.
The middle gap between one pump-out and the next in University Place is 3.22 years, about the regional median. That is a description of what households here do, not a recommendation for yours: the interval that suits your property depends on how many people use it, how much water and solid matter go through it, the size of the tank and the type of system.
| Measure | Figure | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Median gap between pump-outs in University Place | 3.22 years | From about 1,681 observed intervals |
| Properties with no pump-out on record | 13.4% | A filing gap as much as a service gap |
| Last recorded pump-out over five years ago | 39.6% | Of properties that have one on record |
| Properties on septic in University Place | 1,469 | Not on sewer |
13.4% of septic properties in University Place have no pump-out on record at all. That is not the same as never pumped: county filings only become dense from about 2013, and a company that does not report would never appear. What it does mean is that nobody can currently demonstrate when those tanks were last serviced. Of the properties that do have one on file, 39.6% have not had a pump-out in more than five years, which is past the outside edge of the three-to-five-year range the EPA describes.
One caution on comparing towns. Some of the variation between them is real and some of it is a difference in how consistently pump-outs get filed locally, and these records cannot separate the two. Treat the figures as a description of University Place's paperwork as well as its plumbing.
If you do not know where your own system stands, a septic inspection measures the sludge and scum in the tank and tells you whether it needs emptying yet. There is more on how the interval is set, and the figures for every town we cover, on our septic pumping page.
A homeowner in University Place recently scheduled a routine septic tank pumping for their 1,000-gallon septic tank, which serves a three-person household. Our technicians located the tank, removed the access lids, and performed a visual inspection before pumping out the accumulated sludge and scum. Routine maintenance like this helps ensure the septic system continues operating […]
A Gig Harbor homeowner trying us after being let down by their previous company. Routine pumping plus an O&M inspection: approximately 500 gallons from the trash tank, a gap found where the mainline enters it, and a two-amp fuse that blew again as soon as it was replaced — an electrical fault still to be traced.
A Renton customer called us after another company reported the septic pump had failed. We arrived to a high-level alarm and a flooded system, found both baffles in good condition, and pumped approximately 1,300 gallons in total — 1,000 from the septic tank and 300 from the pump tank — to bring the flooding down and evaluate the system.
A two-compartment tank in University Place with risers on every access point but the outlet. The transport line at the outlet was completely submerged, pointing at a drainfield beginning to struggle, and root intrusion was found where the risers meet the tank. We pumped approximately 1,125 gallons and stress tested the system.
A two-compartment tank in Bonney Lake sitting two inches below grade with no risers. Baffles were in good condition, but there was slight root intrusion at both lids and a gap at the mainline connection. Approximately 1,000 gallons pumped, with riser installation and resealing to follow.
A two-compartment tank in Roy with no risers, so direct access was needed. Both baffles were in good condition and the tank showed no major deterioration. We crust busted and pumped approximately 1,125 gallons, with no further work recommended.
A Tacoma homeowner's septic alarm went off, so we came out to troubleshoot it. The alarm turned out to be working exactly as intended — it had detected a full tank — and the visit became a straightforward pump-out.
A Lakewood homeowner recently scheduled a septic tank pumping after realizing their 1,000-gallon septic tank had not been serviced in six years. During the visit, our technicians located the tank, removed the access lids, and completed a thorough inspection before pumping out the accumulated sludge and scum. Although the system had gone longer than the […]
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