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Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage
HARRIS SEPTIC
PUMPING & HAULAGE friendly and professional service since 1975
On the far side of Lake Ontario, just a hop, skip, and a jump from Vermont in Ontario Canada is Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage, a septic service and portable toilet rental company that has provided friendly and professional service to their area since 1975. It is a family-owned and operated company that earned a place of prominence as the go-to septic and portable toilet rental service in their community by providing prompt, professional, and friendly service when no one else would. Owned and operated by just three people, the owner, his wife, and daughter – Harris Septic does a heck of a lot of work in a location with serious septic needs.
During the current pandemic, Harris Septic has had to take special measures to protect their customers and themselves. Like many companies, they have been working out many service contracts via phone and email, completing work or deliveries while remaining distant from the customer. Fortunately for the company, and their local community, this hasn’t slowed them down one bit. The fact remains that you don’t need to be labeled by local authorities as an “essential service” to be one. When the service you provide is truly essential, the people in your community will seek you out. The people at Harris Septic have found this out first hand. continued on page 28
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Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage does more
With their main offices in Peterborough and Mamora, Ontario, Canada, a location with an unusually high water table, they have their work cut out for them. As any homeowner who lives near the coast, large estuaries, or a massive lake system knows, a high water table brings special problems for septic systems. In most areas, regulations require at least three feet of sufficient filtering soil between the seasonal high water table level and a septic system. This is called the purification layer, and its purpose is to protect the groundwater from being contaminated by sewage. Hydraulic septic systems must be designed to anticipate and respond to seasonal high water table levels to accurately determine where the tank and absorption field should be placed. Most of the time, this is done by analyzing soil samples and careful hydrogeologic study. As you can imagine, that’s a heck of a lot of work for a three-person team. But Harris Septic has earned its position as the local leaders in the industry simply by being willing to do this kind of work with the kind of professionalism that one would expect from a multinational corporation. This is something that Harris Septic has in common with many of the local-level organizations that we cover. They are a small and scrappy, family-owned company that’s willing to do the kind of work that no one else will do. If you ask us, it’s downright heroic. But, of course, Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage does more than just septic pumping and hauling. They also offer bin rentals and hauling and portable toilet rentals. They work on a wide variety of project types including construction, special events, and private parties. If you look at their website, you’ll see these project types listed, but they also offer a space to write in your project type and the date by which you want it to be completed. This just goes to show how surprisingly flexible this company is. If you scroll down a bit from there on their contact page, you’ll find a complete list of services, which includes rentals for portable toilets, washroom trailers, construction units with heating and running water, handwash stations, streetside garbage bins, and septic service.
One of the most
One of the most outstanding services on their resume is their streetside garbage bin rentals and hauling for the simple fact that next to zero other septic service providers we’ve covered offer it. This could be the one thing that most sets Harris Septic apart from other similar companies. Of course, their portable toilet rentals are second to none and certainly stand head and shoulders above any other such service in their region. Their portable toilets come with a host of options like wedding white for large weddings, wheelchair access ramps, flushable units, and more. They also offer ruggedized portable toilets for use on construction sites, portable wash stations, sanitation stands, and sink units. Their sanitation stands are another product that few similar companies offer. These units are something that no work site should be without. With today’s health concerns, it is a great way to enable everyone at an event to make sure their hands are clean and sanitary- which is especially important at events where food is served. But our treatment of Harris Septic Pumping and Haulage would not be complete without mentioning the unusually high quality of their specialty wedding stall units. These trailer bathrooms offer a men’s and women’s stall side by side. They are complete with all the amenities of a home restroom with a sink, mirror, and washstand, and they have hardwood flooring and faux marble counter-tops. Finally, Harris Septic is one of just a handful of septic service companies that has a website that is mobiledevice-friendly with clickable buttons on each page that connects you directly to their home office phone line. On top of that, their Facebook page has more than 400 followers — which goes to show they must be doing something right!
Sources http://www.harrisseptic.com/ https://www.facebook.com/harrissepticpumping/about
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