Septic Tank Pumping in the Portland Area

Speedy Septic Service specializes in septic tank pumping in the Portland Metro Area. According the EPA and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, a septic tank should be pumped once it reaches about 25% solids. For most households this equates to about every 2-4 years.

Since a septic tank acts as your first line of defense, by accumulating solid material and preventing it from clogging up your drain field, it is extremely important that those materials are removed on a routine basis. Most of the time there are no signs that you have let your tank go too long between pumpings until it is too late.

The majority of new systems have a physical filter in place to prevent this passing of solids to the drain field. However, since 95% of systems currently in use do not have this filter, it is very important that a tank’s solids are regularly removed.