Septic Services in Clermont, FL
Clermont is the biggest city in Lake County, and it is built on hills, which changes everything about septic work here. The town was laid out between Lake Minneola to the north and Lake Minnehaha to the south, so a system's fate depends on which way your lot falls. We pump tanks in 1920s cottages near downtown and in subdivisions off Hancock and Hartwood Marsh that went in last decade. From Howey it is roughly 25 minutes. Pumping $350, inspections $395, 24/7 for emergencies that will not wait.
How a job goes in Clermont
- You call (352) 298-9384 and talk to the man who does the work, not a dispatcher reading a script. Tell us the symptom and you get a straight answer on whether it is a pump-out, a repair, or something you can watch for a while.
- We schedule around your day. Clermont runs about 25 minutes from our Howey-in-the-Hills shop, so same-day is normal and an emergency gets an honest ETA before we hang up.
- On site the first job is finding the tank, which on these hill lots is not always where the old drawings say. We dig to the lid by hand rather than putting a machine across your yard.
- With the tank open we read it before we pump it: scum layer, sludge depth, whether the outlet is passing water or backing up. On a sloped lot that reading usually tells us whether the field is tired.
- Then the tank comes out fully, solids included. Lid back, sod back, price as quoted, and a plain account of anything you should plan for in the next few years.
Septic services in Clermont
Septic Tank Pumping
Full pump-out of the tank, solids included, lid dug and reset.
$350Septic Inspections
Real-estate and routine inspections with a written report.
$395Drainfield Repair
Failed or soggy drainfields diagnosed and repaired.
from $3,500Drainfield Installation
New drainfields sized for the soil and water table on your lot.
Quote by phoneSeptic System Installation
Complete new systems, permitted and inspected.
Quote by phoneLift Station Pumping & Repair
Residential and commercial lift stations pumped and fixed.
Quote by phoneGrease Trap Cleaning
Restaurant and commercial traps cleaned on schedule.
Quote by phoneSeptic Jetting
High-pressure jetting for clogged lines and drainfields.
Quote by phoneATU / Aerobic System Service
Aerobic treatment units serviced and maintained.
Quote by phoneSeptic Pump Replacement
Wastewater and sewage pumps replaced, usually same day.
Quote by phoneEmergency Septic Service
24/7 response for backups and overflows.
Quote by phoneQuestions from Clermont homeowners
Who issues septic permits in Clermont?
Clermont is in Lake County, so repair and installation permits go through the county health department. We pull it and meet the inspector. You do not stand in any lines.
Does being up on the hills help my drainfield?
Usually, yes. The older parts of town sit around 125 feet of elevation, which buys you separation between the field and the groundwater. The tradeoff is that a system can fail slowly for years up there without ever showing a wet spot.
My house is near Lake Minneola. Anything different?
Lakefront and lake-adjacent lots run out of vertical room. Minneola and Minnehaha bracket the original town site, and the closer you sit to that water, the more a wet season shows up in the yard. We size and set fields on those lots with the summer in mind, not the January in which we are digging.
New construction here is all sewer. Why would I have a tank?
Because the city limits and the county line are not the same thing. Plenty of Clermont-addressed homes sit on unincorporated parcels with their own systems. Check for a sewer line on your utility bill, and if there is none, there is a tank out there somewhere.
What we see in Clermont
The old town on the hills
Founded in 1884
Clermont was founded in 1884 and reincorporated as a city on December 28, 1916, after its first charter was cancelled in 1895. The oldest streets sit on sand hills at an elevation of about 125 feet, which is high ground by Florida standards and generally good news for a drainfield.
What we find in those older neighborhoods is age, not water. Concrete tanks poured decades ago, lids buried under two feet of added grade, outlet baffles long gone. Sandy hill soil drains well enough that a failing field here often shows no symptoms until it suddenly backs up.
Down toward the chain
Eleven connected lakes
The Clermont chain is eleven interconnected lakes forming the middle of the Palatlakaha River watershed. That watershed is the headwater of the same Ocklawaha River that drains the Leesburg lakes, and its water runs tea-colored from tannic acid.
Lots that slope down toward Minneola, Minnehaha or Louisa are a different job from the ones up on the ridge. The closer the lot sits to lake level, the less vertical separation there is between the bottom of a drainfield and the water underneath it.
That is the number that matters in a wet summer. A field with plenty of sand above the water table handles a rainy August without trouble. A field sitting three feet over it does not, and no amount of pumping the tank changes that.
The new south end
43,021 residents in 2020
Clermont counted 43,021 residents at the 2020 census. Most of that growth landed south and east of the old town, on land that was citrus and pasture within living memory.
Inside the city those rooftops are largely on central sewer. The septic work sits in the county pockets between the subdivisions, on larger parcels along the clay roads, and in the older lakefront homes that were never annexed. Those are the addresses we drive to.
Hills, sand, and 15 years of it.
Clermont septic service from the family in Howey-in-the-Hills. Pumping $350 · 24/7.
Call (352) 298-9384