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Lorain County

Septic services in Oberlin, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Oberlin

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.

Nka Unlimited LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Showing the 30 nearest of 32 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Oberlin

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Oberlin — 32,050 acres across 50 soil map units — it rates 97.3% 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 Oberlin the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 96.9% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 89%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone96.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement89%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Ponding22%Water stands on the surface
Flooding5.8%The site floods often enough to matter
Depth to bedrock3.4%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 97.3%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Oberlin. Mahoning alone accounts for 50.3% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Mahoning50.3% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 12% None in profile Very limited
Trumbull14.7% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Ellsworth6.8% Moderately well drained 2 to 50% None in profile Very limited
Miner5.2% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Tiro3.7% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% 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 Oberlin (GNIS 2395295, 41.2861, -82.2196), 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: Lorain 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 Lorain County

In Lorain 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 Lorain County detail →