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Cuyahoga County

Septic services in North Olmsted, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of North Olmsted

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.

A & P Septic LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Leach Excavating LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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not on file
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Plunger Plumber LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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not on file
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Ray Johnson Septic Service

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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not on file
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none

Soil and septic suitability around North Olmsted

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of North Olmsted — 32,051 acres across 77 soil map units — it rates 75.4% of the land very limited for that use and 0% 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 North Olmsted the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 67.9% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 49.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone67.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement49.5%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Ponding20%Water stands on the surface
Seepage, bottom layer18%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to bedrock14.5%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 75.4%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around North Olmsted. Mahoning alone accounts for 19.3% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Mahoning19.3% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 12% None in profile Very limited
Condit11.1% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Jimtown6.9% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 3% None in profile Very limited
Haskins6.2% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Mitiwanga6% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% 30 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 North Olmsted (GNIS 1085984, 41.4149, -81.9191), 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: Cuyahoga County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Lorain County, Ohio (2025-09-02). 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 Cuyahoga County

In Cuyahoga 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 Cuyahoga County detail →