Enterprise Cascadia provides financing to residential and commercial property owners to repair or replace their existing septic systems. The Septic Loan covers 100% of the costs of designing, permitting, and installing a septic system. The loan offers competitive loan terms, with customer-friendly qualification criteria.
ImpactThe Septic Loan contributes to Enterprise Cascadia’s mission which aims for results in the triple bottom line areas of economic development, environmental improvement, and social equity. Septic loans have helped owners invest in sewage system upgrades that increase the value of their property, while contributing to local business activity, removing sources of disease and environmental contamination, and through income-based rates and terms, providing low income owners the resilience they need to preserve their primary asset—their homes.
"If the Septic loan had not become available, I may have had to sell the house due to lack of options."
– Septic Loan Customer
The Septic Loan is currently available in the following Washington locations:
- Hood Canal (Jefferson, Kitsap or Mason Counties), in partnership with Hood Canal Coordinating Council member governments, local public health agencies, and the State of Washington.
- Dungeness Clean Water District (Clallam County) in partnership with the Clallam County Environmental Health Services Division.
- Willapa Bay (Pacific County) in partnership with Pacific County and the State of Washington, The goal of the Pacific County septic repair and replacement program is to protect the water quality of Willapa Bay so the local shellfish industry can continue to support the many jobs and other economic contributions it makes to this watershed.
The loan is made possible through the cooperation of private and public organizations.
