Operators based within 12 miles of Buchtel

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here was on the ODH 2026 sewage treatment system bond lists on the date its record shows, and the address it is placed by comes from that same list, so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. An Ohio bond covers work in any health district in the state, though each district registers its contractors separately, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Soil and septic suitability around Buchtel

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Buchtel — 32,037 acres across 107 soil map units — it rates 89% of the land very limited for that use and 0.5% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

• Very limited · 89%
• Somewhat limited · 0.5%
• Not rated · 10.5%

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Buchtel the leading one is slope on 73.2% of the mapped area, followed by depth to bedrock on 51.8%. In full:

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 89.5%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Buchtel. Westmoreland alone accounts for 32.1% of it.

“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Buchtel (GNIS 2397481, 39.4635, -82.1804), chosen because five of this state's communities are unincorporated and have no boundary to use, and because the lots that need a septic permit are in the ring around a town rather than inside it. Soil from USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access, SSURGO interpretation “ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields”, area-weighted by mapped acreage and by each component's share of its map unit. Survey areas: Athens County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Hocking County, Ohio (2025-08-29). Retrieved 2026-09-18.

This is a survey, not an evaluation of your lot. The permit decision rests on the site evaluation ODH carries out for the specific parcel.

By service

• Septic System Repair in Buchtel
• Septic Installation in Buchtel

Permitting in Athens County

In Athens County a septic (sewage treatment system) permit is issued by the local board of health, not by the state. The Ohio Department of Health writes the rules; the health district applies them and registers the contractors who work in it. See the Athens County detail →