New Septic System Installation in Lakeside, MT

New Systems in Lakeside

Most new homes in the Flathead Valley go up outside a sewer district, which means a new septic system is part of the build. We install complete residential septic systems across the valley: the tank, the lines, the drain field or whichever treatment system the ground calls for, and the Flathead County permit that has to come first. New construction here follows Montana DEQ rules through Flathead County Environmental Health, and the design depends on a site evaluation of your lot’s soil and groundwater. On a cobbly bench above the valley a conventional gravity system may be fine; on a lakeshore lot, a river bottom near Evergreen, or a parcel with shallow groundwater, the county may require a pressure-dosed, elevated sand mound or other engineered system, and the price and the layout change with it. We walk the lot with you before you commit, tell you what the ground will likely allow, handle the application and the inspections, and build a system sized for the house you are actually building, not the one the old permit described. We also replace systems that are past saving, on the same permit path.

Septic service in Lakeside

Lakeside runs along the west shore of Flathead Lake on Highway 93, about fifteen miles south of Kalispell, strung between the water and the slopes that climb to Blacktail Mountain. It is a lake town through and through: homes and cabins on the shore, newer houses stepping up the hillside with a view, and the ski-area road winding up behind. A local water and sewer district serves part of the community along the highway, but a great many Lakeside homes, especially up the hill and along the shore toward Angel Point and south toward Rollins, run on septic. Lakeside septic is steep septic. Lots drop from the highway to the water or climb from the highway up the mountain, so a drain field is often not where the house is, and an effluent pump lifts the water to it. The ground is rocky and shallow in places, cobbly glacial gravel in others, with the lake itself setting the setbacks for anything new. We see pump systems at second homes that nobody is in when the alarm sounds, shoreline systems that predate today’s rules, and a steady stream of buyers who want an inspection before they close on a view lot. We pump, repair, inspect and install septic systems all over Lakeside and the west shore. Tell us where the property is and how the access looks and we will come prepared.

• Flathead County Environmental Health permit application and inspections handled
• Site evaluation coordinated: soil, groundwater and setbacks read before design
• Conventional gravity, pressure-dosed and sand mound systems installed to the approved design
• Tank, lines, drain field and controls set and insulated for the frost depth
• Replacement systems for homes whose old field is past saving
• Final cover, risers at grade and an as-built record for the day you sell

Need new systems elsewhere? See all of our Lakeside services or new systems across the Flathead Valley.