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Jefferson County

Septic services in East Springfield, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of East Springfield

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 East Springfield

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of East Springfield — 32,044 acres across 126 soil map units — it rates 89.7% of the land very limited for that use and 1.3% 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 East Springfield the leading one is slope on 75% of the mapped area, followed by depth to bedrock on 55.2%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope75%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to bedrock55.2%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slow water movement32.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer24.7%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone16.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 91%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around East Springfield. Gilpin alone accounts for 25.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Gilpin25.7% Well drained 2 to 25% 20 in Very limited
Berks11.9% Well drained 3 to 70% 22 in Very limited
Morristown8.6% Well drained 0 to 70% None in profile Very limited
Hazleton8% Well drained 25 to 70% 53 in Very limited
Lowell7% Well drained 1 to 65% 42 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 East Springfield (GNIS 2628890, 40.4474, -80.8599), 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: Carroll County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Harrison County, Ohio (2025-08-28), Jefferson 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.

Permitting in Jefferson County

In Jefferson 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 Jefferson County detail →