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Hamilton County

Septic services in Plainville, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Plainville

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.

Above All Septic

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Septek Service Pros LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Plainville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Plainville — 32,034 acres across 156 soil map units — it rates 42.8% of the land very limited for that use and 1.5% somewhat limited, leaving 10.4% with no rated limitation.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Plainville the leading one is slow water movement on 28.1% of the mapped area, followed by slope on 22.8%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement28.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Slope22.8%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to bedrock14%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Depth to saturated zone11.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding10.7%The site floods often enough to matter

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 44.3%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Plainville. Alfic Udarents alone accounts for 14.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Alfic Udarents14.6% Well drained 0 to 70% 20 in Not limited
Eden12.4% Well drained 3 to 60% 21 in Very limited
Rossmoyne4.8% Moderately well drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Bonnell3% Well drained 6 to 60% None in profile Very limited
Jules2.9% Well 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 Plainville (GNIS 2585519, 39.1438, -84.3593), 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: Clermont County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Hamilton County, Ohio (2025-08-28). 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 Hamilton County

In Hamilton 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 Hamilton County detail →