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Quality Septic Service

What Our Company Offers

At North Star Honey Wagon, we understand the importance of Annual Septic Maintenance. Our commitment to you, our valued customers, is to provide the most responsive septic pumping service at affordable rates in the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

 

Whether it be annual pumping maintenance or an emergency callout, we are committed to assuring that you are 100% satisfied with our service.

 

Located in Salcha, Alaska, we understand the challenges Alaskans face with living in the harsh Alaska environment. This is why our equipment is maintained to the highest standards to be ready to respond to your needs at a moment’s notice. Our staff is committed to providing friendly personalized service to help you with all your septic needs.

How to Maintain Your Septic System

Protecting Your Investment

If you own a home in Alaska, chances are that you own a septic system. A septic system is an effective method for treating household wastewater. In addition, it is cost-effective and easy to maintain. Well-built systems can last 20 years or more when properly maintained. Septic system failures are a major source of groundwater pollution. Layers of soil act as a natural filter, removing microbes and other particles as water seeps through. Improperly treated water can carry bacteria and viruses that can cause gastroenteritis, fever, common cold, and respiratory infections. Septic system maintenance is like automobile maintenance; a little effort on a regular basis can save you a lot of money and significantly prolong the life of the system.

Dos and Dont’s

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  • Don’t treat an on-site wastewater treatment system as if it were a normal centralized sewer system (items flushed down the toilet don’t disappear).

  • Don’t flush household wastes such as coffee grinds, kitty litter, cigarette butts, disposable diapers, fat, grease or oil, paper towels, and feminine hygiene products.

  • Don’t build driveways, storage buildings, or other structures over the septic tank or drain field.

  • Don’t send the back-flush water from a water softener into your septic system.

  • Do divert rainwater coming from driveways and roofs from drain fields. Flooding of the drain field with excessive water will keep the soil from naturally cleaning the wastewater, leading to groundwater pollution.

  • Do use water wisely by fixing leaking faucets and toilets, installing low-flow devices, taking shorter showers and shallower baths, and washing only full loads of dishes and laundry to help reduce the wastewater volume the system must treat. The more wastewater you produce, the more your tank and drain field must treat. Continuous saturation can affect the quality of the soil and its ability to naturally remove toxins, bacteria, and viruses from the water.

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  • Do maintain a grass cover over drain field area.

  • Do use household cleaning materials in moderation. They seldom affect the operation of a septic system when used in moderation.
     
  • Do leave standpipes extending at least 24” above the surface. If you must cut them down, be sure to measure and mark their location on a drawing of your system so they may be located for pumping maintenance in the future.
     
  • Don't wait until you have a problem - pump regularly! If the buildup of solids and sludge in the tank becomes too high, solids move to the drain field and can clog and strain the system to the point where a new drain field will be needed. Replacing a septic can be costly depending on the repair, anywhere from $5000 to $15000.
     
  • Don’t add chemical or biological additives to your septic tank. Because of the cold soil temperatures typically found in Alaska, adding performance enhancing additives like yeast, bacteria, or chemicals in your septic tank is of little value. In fact, in some cases, these additives can be harmful to your system or the environment. Because of this, we recommend NOT using additives and instead have your septic tank pumped every year.

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Do you have any questions regarding the service we provide? Perhaps you would like to discuss your need for septic maintenance with one of our experts? Do not hesitate to contact to learn more. We look forward to hearing from you!

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North Star Honey Wagon

Ralph Wease

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6675 Coho Avenue

Salcha, AK 99714

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