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Delaware County

Septic services in Galena, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Galena

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.

Risha Co LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Galena

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Galena — 32,042 acres across 30 soil map units — it rates 90.6% 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 Galena the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 88.7% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 87.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone88.7%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement87.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Ponding22.3%Water stands on the surface
Flooding4.7%The site floods often enough to matter
Seepage, bottom layer2.9%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 90.6%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Galena. Bennington alone accounts for 33.8% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Bennington33.8% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Cardington20.4% Moderately well drained 2 to 12% None in profile Very limited
Pewamo14.3% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Centerburg5.5% Moderately well drained 2 to 12% None in profile Very limited
Sloan3.7% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile 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 Galena (GNIS 2398937, 40.2253, -82.8762), 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: Delaware County, Ohio (2025-08-27). 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 Delaware County

In Delaware 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 Delaware County detail →