how do they get water and sewer up to remote homes that are high in the mountains?
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If location is really remote, you can provide water and sewer on-site. For water, drill a well, install pump and filter, and (ideally) monitor quality. For sewage, dig out a septic tank that slowly cleans water and releases it into soil, or have sewage truck come pump it out every once in a while.
If water well is not an option (dry climate or polluted soil), you can set up a large water tank and refill it by water truck.
If you really want connection to city water and sewers, it is possible but can get expensive.
Water will flow uphill with enough pressure in the pipes, so you need a powerful pump, or even a pumping station every couple mile.
Sewage flows downhill due to gravity, the issue is what to do if the house is low in the valley. Then you need a sewage pump that does not get clogged by poop and other semi-solids, and a pressurized sewage pipe
You drill a well and use a septic tank. They move those with trucks, though the equipment generally isn’t huge. Theoretically you could also use a helicopter
They are not on sewer systems and utilize septic tanks instead.
They are not on municipal water and instead have their own wells, or utilize other water sources like a creek or rain catch system.
at my remote(ish) home we have a well and a septic tank. We’re completely self-sufficient as far as water and sewage.
There are houses in my area built on the top of rocky hilltops. There’s no way they could drill a well or dig a septic tank (at least without blasting the rock). The climate is also well below freezing in the winter. I can’t even imagine how they’ve been able to overcome these obstacles.
Remote locations typically use wells for water, drilling to underground water sources rather than tapping into municipal water lines.
For sewer, they use septic systems on property vs. tapping into municipal sewer lines.
I live in such a house in the mountains in Idaho. I have a well for water and it is the best damn water on earth! I also have a septic tank that gets pumped out on a schedule with a maintenance company that handles everything for a set monthly fee. I have 2 big propane tanks that I fill once a year for heat. The big hangup we ran into when building this home was connecting to the nearby electrical power service. It wasn’t difficult per day, it just took the longest & had to be established first before we could really get much else going to build.
They generally don’t. Septic and wells. Or some variation – composting toilets ansd outhouse and cisterns or water tanks. You don’t have to go far out of town before “land has been perked for a 2 bathroom house and has a well on site” is in the listing.
They don’t, typically.
Those places usually have their own wells and a septic tank. It’d be impractical to connect them to a municipal water/sanitation system.
Usually you drill a well for water (it requires a pump, some filters, maybe some sensors to detect contamination), and instead of sewer you put in septic (which consists of a big underground tank, that’s designed to let sewage break down and seep into the soil)
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