Savvy Septic Program

ABOUT SAVVY SEPTIC

The Savvy Septic Program is your one-stop-shop for financing options, incentives, and education to help you maintain a healthy septic system. The Savvy Septic Program offers:

  • Rebates for septic system inspection, pumping, riser installation, and select minor repairs
  • Grants for qualifying low-income homeowners for system replacement and major repairs
  • A free, online Septic Care Workshop to help homeowners learn about their septic system and how to take care of it.

View a printable handout of Savvy Septic information.

Septic Care Workshops

Rebates

Grants

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INVESTING IN CLEAN WATER

Snohomish County is home to spectacular marine shorelines, lakes, rivers, and streams that provide recreation, wildlife habitat, food, and natural beauty unique to the Pacific Northwest. Maintaining septic systems helps protect our local waters from pollution as well as the health and safety of our community.

GETTING RESULTS

The Savvy Septic Program benefits County homeowners and the environment. Savvy Septic’s impact from 2023-2025 is highlighted below:

  1. 1 Pie chart of septic care workshop attendees from 2023 to 2025, totaling 1303.
  2. 2 Map of Savvy Septic outreach events in Snohomish County from 2023 to 2025, totaling 20 events.
  3. 3 Graph of septic rebates from 2023 to 2025. Inspection: 747, pump: 676, minor repair: 276, riser: 223
  4. 4 Septic tank image with data about number of failing systems repaired or replaced (29 total).

Our community is full of septic geniuses! 
1,303 homeowners have taken our Septic Care Workshop to learn how to care for their system. 

It pays to take care of your system 
1,922 maintenance rebates have been claimed. In total, nearly $223,860 in rebate checks have been issued to homeowners. 

Homeowners get help with replacing their system 
Our Savvy Septic grants have helped 15 low-income households replace failing septic systems, with many more in progress. 

Keep up the great work Snohomish County!

This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement PC-01J89801 to the Washington State Department of Health and under an assistance agreement to the Washington State Department of Ecology. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.