Septic installation and repair in Francestown, NH

At C.J. Burke Enterprises we install new septic systems in Francestown, replace failed ones, and repair the ones that can be saved. Francestown is about 7 miles from our base in New Boston, and Route 136 crosses both towns. Francestown has no municipal sewer and no wastewater treatment plant, so every home in town is on a private septic system.

Call or text 603-303-1543 if you need a new system, a replacement, or a repair.

A small hill town on septic

State data lists Francestown’s sanitation as private septic. Water is mostly private wells, with the Francestown Village Water Co. also listed as a supplier. The town is small, about 1,600 people at the 2020 census across roughly 30 square miles, so houses are spread out along Routes 47 and 136 and the back roads.

The land is hilly. It generally slopes from the northwest to the southeast, with Crotched Mountain on the western border at 2,066 feet, and a string of named hills, such as Bible Hill and Bradford Hill, around 1,280 feet. On a hillside lot, slope, ledge, and drainage decide where a leach field can go. Francestown’s site development regulations, which apply when a site plan includes a new septic system, spell out some of that: a reserved replacement area for the leach field, no leach field on finished slopes over 25 percent, and a system designed by a registered professional engineer on slopes from 15 to 25 percent. We install the system as designed; a permitted designer and NHDES handle the plan and the state approval.

Ponds, brooks, and the Shorelands District

Francestown’s zoning includes a Shorelands District covering land within 500 feet of Pleasant Pond, Dennison Pond, Shattuck Pond, Haunted Lake, and other ponds over 10 acres, and land within 50 feet of other ponds and streams. Under the zoning ordinance, septic systems are prohibited within 125 feet of the mean high water level of a pond, river, or stream protected by the district. Pleasant Pond, at nearly 200 acres, has a number of seasonal homes along its shore.

Brooks and wet pockets show up all over town, and most of Francestown drains to the South Branch of the Piscataquog River. If a lot is near water, tell us when you call.

Access and wooded lots

Long gravel driveways, narrow roads, and heavily wooded lots are normal here. We plan the excavation for a septic job around that and size the equipment to the site.

Nearby towns

Francestown borders New Boston and Lyndeborough, and the Pleasant Pond watershed starts in neighboring Weare and Deering. We work in all of those towns.

Services in Francestown

Septic installation, replacement, and repair.

Call or text 603-303-1543, or use the contact page. If the driveway is long or steep, or the work area is far from the road, say so when you call.