Building permits here come from the Capital Regional District
Septic Systems in Otter Point
Sooke Septic designs, installs and maintains septic systems in Otter Point, an unincorporated community in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. We can design and install Type 1 and Type 2 systems, and we file every new system with Island Health. We reply within 24 hours.
An Otter Point Type 1 system is $18,000 to $30,000. Step up to Type 2 and it is $25,000 to $45,000 or more.
Is Otter Point a town?
Otter Point is not part of the District of Sooke and it is not a municipality. It is an unincorporated community inside the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area of the Capital Regional District, on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.
Who inspects a build out here?
Your building permit comes from the Capital Regional District. Its building inspection service covers the Capital Regional District's electoral areas, and inside Juan de Fuca that means Otter Point and East Sooke.
What does designing a system for your lot involve?
We dig the test pits, read the soil and set the daily design flow the system has to carry. Our registration covers Type 1 and Type 2 systems, under 9,100 litres of daily design flow. Then we file the design with Island Health.
What septic work do we do in Otter Point?
We put in new systems, and we keep existing ones working with scheduled pump-outs and effluent filter service. Where a system is failing we open it up and find out why.
What does an annual maintenance rule look like?
Where the regional district's Onsite Sewage System Maintenance Bylaw No. 3479 applies, a Type 2 or Type 3 system has to be maintained annually by an Authorized Person. The owner keeps the records, and a Certification of Maintenance form goes to the regional district.
Can you put the system in yourself?
You can. The regulation lets a homeowner build the system, so long as an Authorized Person designs it, files the documents and supervises the work in the ground. That supervision has to be in place before the work starts, and it is not something you can arrange after the ground is closed up. We either supervise your build or we do the whole thing, and we will tell you which one makes sense for the lot you have.
Tell us where you are in Otter Point and we'll put a free quote in writing for you.
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