Campton is fifty-two square miles of Grafton County wedged between the Pemigewasset River and the White Mountain National Forest, with about 3,300 people in it and no town sewer anywhere in it. Two village districts here sell water. Neither one takes sewage, and neither ever will. Every house, condo and camp in Campton is on its own tank and its own leach field.
Blair, Campton Hollow, Lower and Upper Campton, West Campton, and Beebe River out at the end of its own road — five or six settlements depending on who’s counting, and not a downtown among them. I-93 splits the town north to south with US 3 beside it, Route 175 takes the west side of the river, and Route 49 leaves Campton for Waterville Valley and the ski resort at the end of it. Blair Bridge crosses the Pemi in two spans at 292 feet 10 inches, the second-longest covered bridge sitting entirely inside New Hampshire; a couple of miles downstream the river drops through Livermore Falls gorge. The Forest Supervisor’s office for the whole White Mountain National Forest is here too, out on White Mountain Drive alongside the Pemigewasset Ranger District. Up in the hills above the Mad River, Waterville Estates covers 829 acres and 833 properties inside its own village district, which pipes drinking water to all of them and takes sewage from none of them. Campton had under 1,700 residents in 1980 and has roughly double that now, and the biggest single decade was the 1980s at about forty percent — which means a very large share of the tanks in this town went into the ground within a few years of each other and are all getting old together.
Selling a developed waterfront lot on the Pemigewasset puts you inside RSA 485-A:39, and that means a septic site assessment before the deed changes hands. Start it early, not the week of closing. And if you’re in Waterville Estates, keep in mind the water up there is shared and the leach field isn’t — that combination is why we push harder on inspections on that hill than anywhere else in town.
Routine pump-outs with filter rinse and baffle check. Most tanks $300–$500.
Baffles, lines, distribution boxes, and honest leach field diagnosis.
Pump-and-inspect evaluations and shoreland site assessments with 48-hour reports.
Same-day pumping when the system backs up.
Same-week scheduling, straight prices, and a crew that knows the Lakes Region.
Tell us where the property is and what's going on. We'll get right back to you with a straight price.
We reply to every request within 2 business hours — emergencies first.
Lakes Region