Collinsville is a town of 2,059 people, as of the 2020 census, in both DeKalb and Cherokee counties. Most of Collinsville sits in southern DeKalb County. A small part runs southeast along State Route 68 into Cherokee County. The town has public sewer: EPA lists the Collinsville Lagoon, on County Road 51, as a publicly owned treatment works. Ask the town whether a sewer line reaches your address. A home with no sewer line needs its own septic system. The town lies in the Little Wills Valley. Lookout Mountain rises to the east, with the smaller Big Ridge to the west. Under state rules, every proposed septic site is rated on six factors, including slope and depth to bedrock. On the DeKalb side, septic permits come from the DeKalb County Health Department in Fort Payne.
U.S. Highway 11 runs through the middle of Collinsville, and Interstate 59 crosses the west side of town. State Route 68 heads southeast from town toward Leesburg in Cherokee County. The Collinsville Trade Day is held every Saturday, and an estimated 10,000 people visit each week. We are Affordable Septic and Plumbing, based in Piedmont, and septic work is all we do. The company holds an Alabama Level II onsite wastewater installer license, the advanced state level. It covers engineered and large commercial onsite systems as well as conventional ones. We run three crews and own our excavation equipment, so we do our own digging for tanks and trenches. Decades of septic installs sit behind the company. For septic system installation in Collinsville, we handle the permit with the county health department. Call (256) 453-9003 for a free estimate.
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In the Little Wills Valley, lots that climb toward Lookout Mountain or Big Ridge bring slope into the septic design. The most limiting of the state's six site factors decides between a conventional and an engineered system. The rules also require an engineer's design for any drain field site steeper than 25 percent. When rock or slope limits a site, the design may move to engineered septic systems for Collinsville lots.
Flooding from Little Wills Creek was a problem in the town's downtown area until 1939. That year, extensive work on the creek channel was completed, along with a levee and a flood wall. Alabama's septic rules keep every part of a septic system, tank and field alike, out of flood zones. Flood zones do not count toward lot size, so check with the county health department before buying near the creek.
In Alabama, no septic install or repair may begin until the county health department issues the permit for it. That rule holds even when homeowners plan to do all of the work on their own. Before that permit can be issued, the soil tests for the proposed septic system have to be certified. A licensed soil professional or the county does that work, and we coordinate it through Collinsville septic inspections.
Under state rules, the size of the septic tank for a home is based on its number of bedrooms. The drain field's loading rate is then set by the soil's measured or assigned percolation rate. A replacement system counts as a new system and has to meet all current rules. We handle the permit with the county for septic system replacement in Collinsville, just as we do for new installs.
Communities & areas we serve around Collinsville: Little Wills Valley, Lookout Mountain, Big Ridge, Sand Rock, Leesburg, Crossville, the U.S. Highway 11 corridor, the State Route 68 corridor.
Collinsville ZIP codes served: 35961.
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We pump and clean septic tanks on a routine schedule, through the main lid so the whole tank empties. Estimates are free, and we cover Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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We repair septic tanks, lids, risers, baffles, and the lines running in and out of the tank. Estimates are free across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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Septic system replacement for a tank or field that is past repair. We pull the county permit, set the new system, and deal with the old tank. Free estimates.
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Drain field repair puts the buried field lines back to work when your yard stays wet. We repair and replace field lines across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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Regular septic tank maintenance keeps solids in the tank and out of your field lines. We pump on a schedule, clean the outlet filter, check the lids, and look over the drain field.
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We inspect septic tanks and drain fields, then put what we find in writing. We also handle perc tests and soil tests for new lots across Northeast Alabama and Northwest Georgia.
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