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Septic services in Powhatan Point, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Powhatan Point

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 Powhatan Point

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Powhatan Point — 32,040 acres across 174 soil map units — it rates 81.7% of the land very limited for that use and 1.4% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Powhatan Point the leading one is slope on 75.3% of the mapped area, followed by depth to bedrock on 49%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope75.3%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to bedrock49%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slow water movement40.4%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone32.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer21.2%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 83.1%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Powhatan Point. Culleoka alone accounts for 14.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Culleoka14.6% Well drained 3 to 70% 31 in Very limited
Dormont13.9% Moderately well drained 8 to 70% 60 in Very limited
Lowell12.4% Moderately well drained 3 to 70% 50 in Very limited
Westmoreland10.9% Well drained 3 to 70% 42 in Very limited
Gilpin6.2% Well drained 3 to 70% 20 in Very limited

“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 Powhatan Point (GNIS 2399016, 39.8623, -80.8096), 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: Belmont County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Monroe County, Ohio (2025-09-02), Marshall County, West Virginia (2025-09-05). 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.

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Permitting in Belmont County

In Belmont 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 Belmont County detail →