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Madison County

Septic services in West Jefferson, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of West Jefferson

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.

Prodig Excavation LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around West Jefferson

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of West Jefferson — 32,040 acres across 57 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 West Jefferson the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 92.4% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 76.3%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone92.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement76.3%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Ponding35.8%Water stands on the surface
Seepage, bottom layer5.4%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Flooding4.6%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 97.3%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around West Jefferson. Kokomo alone accounts for 33.9% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Kokomo33.9% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Crosby28.5% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Lewisburg16.3% Moderately well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Miamian4.8% Well drained 1 to 50% None in profile Very limited
Celina4.4% Moderately well drained 2 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 West Jefferson (GNIS 2400132, 39.9494, -83.3084), 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: Franklin County, Ohio (2025-08-27), Madison 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 Madison County

In Madison 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 Madison County detail →