You need a wastewater treatment system and land application that is going to keep up with your lifestyle and blend seamlessly into your environment. It’s where your children and pets play. It’s where you host parties and summer barbecues and where you retreat to at the end of the day.

Whether a residential home in New Zealand needs its own wastewater system depends on where the home is and what infrastructure is available.

Most urban and suburban homes are hooked into a public wastewater system. In these cases, wastewater goes straight to council treatment plants. That means no private system is needed (or allowed)

When a home does need its own system:

Rural or remote properties
If there’s no council sewer connection available, the homeowner must install an on-site wastewater system.

Lifestyle blocks, farms, tiny homes, off-grid builds
These typically require on-site systems designed to suit soil type, water table, and household size.

New builds outside reticulated areas
Councils require approved wastewater solutions before granting building consent.

If your home is in a remote location or is challenging to access such as a sloping bush property, we would recommend a system made from plastic which can be more easily transported than their concrete counterparts.

Equally if it is going to be difficult to get lorries to your site to complete suck outs or servicing then we would suggest a vermifiltration system that doesn’t require any maintenance.

Council compliance and consents will also differ depending on where you are, but we will guide you through these.

Let us recommend a solution that will deliver a high-performance whilst keeping your electricity bills low, or in the case of vermifiltration without the need for any electricity at all.