Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service clears septic sites and digs the soil pits, tank hole, and trenches to your approved design, statewide from three Google listings, rated 5.0 on Google.
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A septic job has three parties: the Arkansas Department of Health, which issues the permit; a Designated Representative it certifies, who tests the soil and draws the design; and a registered installer who builds the system. Our part is the ground work around it. We read 172 low-star Google reviews about the work of Arkansas clearing, tree, and dirt-work companies, and five of these questions come from what went wrong most often there.
0 of 172 reviews, but landowners ask Google who files what
On the first visit we tell you which Arkansas rules may touch your job (burn bans, the 1-acre stormwater permit, septic permits) and who handles each.
12 of 172 reviews: the price went up with nothing in writing
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. The price changes only if you approve the change in writing first.
21 of 172 reviews: damage the crew wouldn't own
If we damage anything (a fence, a gate, a line, a culvert), we tell you before we leave that day, and the fix goes in writing.
15 of 172 reviews: never a firm date
Your quote comes with a start week. If the weather moves it, we call you.
61 of 172 reviews: calls and texts went unanswered
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job.
16 of 172 reviews: the job left half done
If we have to leave before the job is finished, you get the return date before the crew leaves.
What Arkansas landowners ask Google before a septic system goes in, answered from the Arkansas Department of Health's own rules.
Not on your own, in most cases. A Designated Representative certified by the Arkansas Department of Health completes the Permit for Construction, and the Department's rules put a registered installer on the job site during every phase of building the system. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does the clearing and digging around that work.
At least 10 feet. The Arkansas Department of Health's rules keep every part of a septic system at least 10 feet from any building and from property lines, and 100 feet from a water well. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service digs to the layout on your approved permit.
It depends on your soil and the approved design, so nobody can price it honestly over the phone. For the clearing and digging, Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service gives you a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included.
Up to three. The Arkansas Department of Health's minimum tank sizes call for 1,000 gallons for a home with one, two, or three bedrooms, plus 250 gallons for each bedroom past that. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service digs the tank hole to the size on your permit.
Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service is fully licensed and insured. We carry liability insurance and send the certificate on request.
We have the equipment for any land clearing or earth-moving job, so the trees come off the septic site and the digging gets done by the same outfit. The estimate is free, and our lines are open 24/7.
Designated Representatives and septic installers carry their own Arkansas Department of Health credentials, and the Department keeps a public list of both. We work statewide from three Google listings: Hindsville, Greenbrier, and Hot Springs.
Six steps, and what you see at each one.
Every call or text gets a call back the same working day, from the person running your job. If we can't take your job, we say so on the first call.
You show us where the house, the well, and the system will sit, with the design if your Designated Representative has drawn one. Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave.
You get a written quote before any work. It lists every charge, travel included. Your quote comes with a start week.
We call the day before, and again when the crew pulls in. Before the machine starts, we walk and flag the boundaries and anything you want saved.
The tank hole and trenches follow the approved design, since the rules allow no change to it without the health unit's approval. If the ground is too wet to work without rutting, we tell you and reschedule. Any ruts we make are smoothed before we leave.
We walk the site with you before we call the job done. Final payment is due after the walkthrough. Every payment gets a receipt.
The ground work on a septic job comes in five parts, in about the order they happen.
Trees, brush, and stumps come off the tank and field area and the path a truck takes to reach it. Clearing the rest of the lot is land clearing.
The hole goes where the approved permit puts it and as big as the tank it names. A home tank is never under 1,000 gallons, so the hole is the biggest single dig on the job.
The rules ask for at least two soil pits, about 4 feet deep, one in the main absorption area and one in the backup area. They stay open for the inspector.
A standard pipe-and-gravel trench is 24 inches wide and 18 inches deep, with at least 6 feet of undisturbed ground between trenches.
Dirt goes back over the tank and trenches when the installer is ready for it, and the yard is graded smooth. Bigger leveling jobs are grading and land leveling.
All three are dirt work, and landowners often need two of them on one property. Here's what each one digs, what it leaves, and who signs off.
Once the system is covered, most of it is out of sight. Three things are worth knowing about what sits under your yard.
Before we quote, we tell you what the ground will look like the day we leave and what it will need afterwards to keep the brush from coming back.
Your quote says how the stumps will be left (ground level, below grade, or removed). We check it with you at the walkthrough.
These reviews come from clearing and mulching jobs. Every review on our three Google listings is five stars.
We had hired them to do some forestry mulching around Conway. They did a superb job and the crew completed the job on time. Thank you!
Mark and his team are outstanding! They were quick to get back with us, and did an excellent job.
A great job they did on my farm.
I will recommend it to everyone and my family
On the first visit we tell you which Arkansas rules may touch your job (burn bans, the 1-acre stormwater permit, septic permits) and who handles each. These three come from the Arkansas Department of Health and touch every septic job.
Each region page lists its towns and the line nearest you. Every line reaches the same crew.
Benton, Washington, Madison, and Carroll counties
Pulaski, Faulkner, Saline, Lonoke, Perry, Conway, and Grant counties
Crawford, Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, Johnson, Scott, Pope, and Yell counties
Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Baxter, Stone, Izard, Fulton, Sharp, Van Buren, and Cleburne counties
Garland, Montgomery, Hot Spring, Clark, Pike, and Polk counties
Randolph, Lawrence, Clay, Greene, Craighead, Mississippi, and Poinsett counties
Independence, Jackson, White, and Woodruff counties
Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis, Lee, Phillips, Monroe, Prairie, and Arkansas counties
Miller, Hempstead, Little River, Sevier, Howard, Lafayette, and Nevada counties
Union, Columbia, Ouachita, Calhoun, Dallas, Bradley, and Cleveland counties
Jefferson, Lincoln, Drew, Ashley, Chicot, and Desha counties
Every Arkansas town with its own page, and the line nearest each one
Tank sizes, daily flow, and the smallest system the Arkansas rules allow.
Read the guidesNo. Under the Arkansas Department of Health's minimums, a four-bedroom home needs at least a 1,250-gallon tank, because each bedroom past three adds 250 gallons. Your Designated Representative sizes the tank on the permit, and Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service digs to that size.
As many as it was designed for, and a home is designed by bedrooms. The Arkansas Department of Health's design flows are 370 gallons a day for three bedrooms and 450 for four, plus 50 for each bedroom after that. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service builds the ground work to that design.
For a home, a 1,000-gallon tank and two absorption trenches. Those are the Arkansas Department of Health's minimums, and the second trench keeps the field working if one is disturbed. Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service digs to the design on your permit, not to a guess.
Not a holding tank, for a home. The Arkansas Department of Health's rules don't approve holding tanks for residences, full or part time. Where the soil won't take a standard trench field, your Designated Representative picks another approved design, and Mark's Arkansas Land Clearing Service does the dirt work for it.
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