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Fairfield County

Septic services in Sugar Grove, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Sugar Grove

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.

Terra Service, LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
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Jeff Hatfield

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Showing the 30 nearest of 49 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Sugar Grove

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Sugar Grove — 32,038 acres across 97 soil map units — it rates 86.6% of the land very limited for that use and 2.2% 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 Sugar Grove the leading one is slope on 68% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 52.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope68%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Seepage, bottom layer52.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to bedrock46.1%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Depth to saturated zone36%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement17.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 88.8%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Sugar Grove. Shelocta alone accounts for 19.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Shelocta19.7% Well drained 15 to 70% 40 in Very limited
Germano10.2% Well drained 15 to 70% 28 in Very limited
Gilpin8.1% Well drained 3 to 70% 27 in Very limited
Berks8% Well drained 2 to 70% 28 in Very limited
Wellston5% Well drained 2 to 25% 40 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 Sugar Grove (GNIS 2399925, 39.6304, -82.5448), 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: Fairfield County, Ohio (2025-09-02), 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.

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Permitting in Fairfield County

In Fairfield 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 Fairfield County detail →