Greeley Quality Septic Guide to Septic Costs in Greeley

Greeley Quality Septic publishes this guide because the first question everyone asks about septic work is what it costs, and most companies around Greeley will not put a number on a website. Every range here is labelled as a typical range, and comes from prices Northern Colorado septic companies publish or from the Weld and Larimer County fee schedules. Your own price depends on your property and should be given to you in writing before work starts.

The cheapest line on this page is a $475 to $800 pump-out and the most expensive is a $28,000 to $35,000 replacement, and the first one is the best way to delay the second.

The price table

These are the typical ranges used across this site, so a service page and this guide always agree.

• Septic tank pumping: $475 to $800 for a tank up to 1,000 gallons, plus about 45 to 55 cents for each gallon above that
• Septic inspection: from about $475, and $475 to $1,275 when the tank has to be pumped for it
• Larimer County transfer of title inspection: $595 to $1,395, including the county's roughly $120 Acceptance Document fee
• Minor repairs such as a baffle, an effluent filter or a lid: $300 to $800
• Septic alarm, float and control repairs: typically $300 to $800; a new pump is priced on site
• Distribution box replacement: $500 to $1,500
• Partial leach field repair: $3,000 to $10,000
• Septic tank locating and uncovering: $300 to $600 for one to two hours
• Site and soils evaluation: $500 to $1,500
• Engineered system design: $1,500 to $5,000
• Septic tank replacement: $9,500 to $11,500
• New septic system on a building lot: $10,000 to $30,000
• Leach field replacement: $22,000 to $29,000
• Full system replacement, three to five bedrooms: $28,000 to $35,000

What makes pumping cost more

Tank size is most of it, since gallons over 1,000 are billed extra. After that, it is access. A lid buried a foot or more down in clay has to be dug out, and digging is billed by the hour, so a riser to grade usually pays for itself within a few pump-outs. Long hose runs, a muddy spring road, grease and debris in the tank all add charges.

Where the numbers come from

The pumping, locating and inspection prices are the ones a long-established Northern Colorado pumping company publishes for its service area across Larimer and Weld counties. The tank, field and full replacement ranges are what a Northern Colorado septic installer publishes on its own site. The repair, distribution box and partial field ranges come from a Fort Collins septic repair company's published figures, and the soils, engineering and new-system ranges from a Fort Collins company's guide to Larimer County permits. County fees are read from the counties' own 2026 schedules.

Costs people forget

A few charges are easy to miss when comparing prices. Digging to a buried lid is often billed by the hour, about $300 an hour at one Northern Colorado company, so a quote that assumes an exposed lid can grow. On any replacement, the old tank has to be pumped and abandoned, and in Weld County that needs a pump receipt from a county-licensed septic tank cleaner. Larimer County adds a $345 fee when an owner installs their own system, and an engineered system there cannot be owner-installed at all.

Engineering and soils work also arrive before the installer's price does. On a lot that needs an engineered design, a $500 to $1,500 soils evaluation and a $1,500 to $5,000 design can add several thousand dollars to the total before a single trench is dug.