Serving Catawba County
Septic installation, repair and servicing across Hickory and Catawba County — from the Lake Hickory shoreline to St. Stephens and Mountain View.
Full-Service Septic
Hickory is the hub of our Catawba County work. Homes around the city on private septic — in Mountain View, St. Stephens, Bethlehem and along Lake Hickory — need the same three things: a properly designed system, timely repairs, and pump and panel servicing. Hickory also reaches into Burke and Caldwell counties, so the first step is confirming which county's environmental health office governs your lot.
Installation, repair and pump, float and control panel servicing all fall under one NC Level 4 license, and every Hickory job is evaluated, quoted and overseen by owner Jared Huneycutt himself.
What We Do
Semper Septic installs new septic systems, repairs failing ones, and services the pumps, floats and control panels that keep Hickory systems running — all from one licensed, insured, veteran-owned company.
Conventional, pump/pressure-dosed and Aerobic Treatment Unit (ATU) systems for new homes and replacements in Hickory, designed around the soil evaluation and the permit the county issues for your lot.
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Drain field, line, tank and distribution box repairs for Hickory homes, plus pump, float and control panel work — diagnosed on-site first, so you pay to fix the actual problem.
Septic Repair & Servicing Details →About Hickory
Hickory is Catawba County's largest city, with 43,490 residents at the 2020 census, and the anchor of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton metro. Its furniture heritage is still visible, but today it's better known for fiber optic cable — Corning and CommScope are major employers — and a growing data-center corridor. Lake Hickory, formed in 1927 behind Oxford Dam on the Catawba River, has 105 miles of shoreline and supplies the city's water. Union Square anchors downtown.
Where we work around Hickory: Downtown and Union Square, Kenworth and Oakwood, St. Stephens, Mountain View, Bethlehem, the Lake Hickory shoreline.
Local Insight
Hickory has no shortage of contractors, but on-site wastewater work requires NC certification. Ask the level (Level 4 covers the most system types), ask for proof of insurance, and ask who will actually be on site.
Because Lake Hickory supplies drinking water to Hickory, Conover and Long View, shoreline owners often ask how setbacks affect their system. The site evaluation sets the limits, and the design has to fit inside them.
Semper Septic covers Hickory as our Catawba County hub. You deal with owner Jared Huneycutt from first call to final inspection — the same Marine Corps veteran who evaluates the site signs off on the work.
Why Semper Septic
North Carolina's highest on-site wastewater contractor level, covering conventional systems and ATUs, so no Hickory job gets handed off to someone else.
Jared Huneycutt served as a Marine Corps officer and UAS pilot. The same standards carry over to how each trench is dug and each system is set.
General Liability and Workers Compensation coverage protects your Hickory property and everyone working on it.
The person who evaluates your site is the person who answers your calls — no dispatcher, no sales handoff.
How It Works
Call 704-351-3479 or send the form with your Hickory address and what you're seeing or planning.
Jared walks the property, checks the system or the site, and explains the options and the permit path in plain terms.
The job is completed to North Carolina on-site wastewater rules and inspected where the county requires it.
Common Questions
Straight answers for Hickory homeowners. Don't see your question? Ask Jared directly.
Semper Septic serves Hickory and the rest of Catawba County with an NC Level 4 on-site wastewater contractor license — the state's highest — plus General Liability and Workers Comp insurance. It's owned by Marine Corps veteran Jared Huneycutt, who evaluates every Hickory property himself. Call 704-351-3479 for a free estimate.
Around Hickory we install conventional, pump/pressure-dosed and ATU septic systems, replace failed systems, repair drain fields, lines, tanks and distribution boxes, and service pumps, floats, control panels and alarms.
Hickory is about 24 miles west of our Troutman base, by way of I-40. Call 704-351-3479 and Jared will line up a visit to your Hickory property at a time that works for you.
Yes. For Hickory properties in Catawba County, Catawba County Environmental Health issues septic permits after a soil evaluation, and zoning approval has to be in place before the application is processed. Parts of Hickory in Burke or Caldwell County go through those counties instead.
Common Hickory-area problems include drain fields saturated in red clay, roots from mature hardwoods in lines and fields, and pump systems on hillside lots near Lake Hickory whose floats or alarms have quit.
Call 704-351-3479 or send the form with your Hickory address. Jared will schedule a free on-site evaluation, explain what he finds, and give you a clear estimate before any work is scheduled.
Service Areas
Hickory is our Catawba County hub. From here we serve Terrell, Newton, Conover, Claremont and Maiden, plus four more Piedmont counties from our Troutman base.
Don't see your town? Reach out anyway — we regularly service the surrounding and extended Piedmont region beyond the areas listed here.
Get In Touch
Jared responds personally — no call center, no automated system.
