Septic Tank Pumping in Brown County, WI

• Coverage across Denmark, Wrightstown, Pulaski, Greenleaf, Morrison, Glenmore, New Denmark, Eaton, Humboldt, Holland and Pittsfield.
• Crews run I-41, I-43, US 141, Highway 29, Highway 32, Highway 57 and Highway 54.
• Winter pumping depends on access; mark lids before snow and keep a path open for the truck.

• Three-year maintenance pump-outs and reports
• Mound system service
• Holding tank pumping
• Septic tank replacements
• Existing system inspections for sales
• Emergency backups

• HomeGuide's national pump-out range is $300 to $700, at $0.30 to $0.70 per gallon of tank size.
• HomeGuide's tank table lists $300 to $700 for a 1,000-gallon tank and $450 to $1,050 for a 1,500-gallon tank.
• Brown County's fee schedule lists $600 for a conventional or mound sanitary permit, $450 to replace only a septic tank, $400 for an existing system inspection and a $16 annual maintenance program fee.
• Method: HomeGuide's published per-gallon range applied to your tank, plus county fee schedule amounts for permits. Holding tanks pumped several times a year cost more over a year than a conventional system.

• Step 1, records: the Brown County zoning office (Planning and Land Services) holds sanitary permits and maintenance records for POWTS in the county.
• Step 2, maintenance: under Wisconsin Administrative Code SPS 383.55 and Brown County Code Chapter 11, the tank is inspected or pumped every three years and the report is filed with the county; the county's fee schedule lists a $16 annual maintenance program fee.
• Step 3, repairs: Brown County's fee schedule lists $450 to replace a septic tank, $450 to repair or replace a soil absorption field and $125 for a pressure tank replacement.
• Step 4, new systems and inspections: the county's fee schedule also lists a conventional or mound permit at $600, a new holding tank at $750 and an existing system inspection at $400; after-the-fact permits are twice the normal fee.

• Red clay: heavy lake-plain clay around Green Bay and Pulaski drains slowly, which is why many rural systems are mounds.
• Niagara Escarpment: in eastern Brown County near Ledgeview, Denmark and Glenmore, dolomite bedrock sits close to the surface along the Ledge, and karst fractures carry wastewater quickly toward wells.
• Water table: spring snowmelt and rainfall raise the water table on flat clay ground near the bay.
• Frost: deep winter frost freezes shallow lines; plan pump-outs before the ground freezes.
• USDA NRCS soil survey data for Brown County (survey WI009) map 88,783 of 349,050 acres, 25.4%, as poorly drained and 89,262 acres, 25.6%, with a water table within about 12 inches of the surface.
• Older homes: farmhouses built before the 1960s in the eastern towns often have older tanks.

Denmark · Wrightstown · Pulaski · Greenleaf · Morrison · Glenmore · New Denmark · Eaton · Humboldt · Holland · Pittsfield