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Licking County

Septic services in Hanover, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Hanover

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.

Treyco, Inc.

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Hanover

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Hanover — 32,041 acres across 73 soil map units — it rates 83.2% of the land very limited for that use and 15% 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 Hanover the leading one is slope on 42.2% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 41.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope42.2%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Seepage, bottom layer41.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement34.2%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone30.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Depth to bedrock19.9%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 98.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Hanover. Brownsville alone accounts for 31.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Brownsville31.6% Well drained 6 to 70% 46 in Very limited
Coshocton9.3% Moderately well drained 2 to 70% 54 in Very limited
Mentor6.3% Well drained 0 to 18% None in profile Somewhat limited
Alford5.2% Well drained 0 to 12% None in profile Somewhat limited
Chili4.5% Well drained 0 to 25% 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 Hanover (GNIS 2398241, 40.0819, -82.2769), 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: Licking 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 Licking County

In Licking 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 Licking County detail →