Operators based within 12 miles of Somerset

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 Somerset

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Somerset — 32,039 acres across 51 soil map units — it rates 73% of the land very limited for that use and 11.9% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

• Very limited · 73%
• Somewhat limited · 11.9%
• Not rated · 15.1%

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Somerset the leading one is slope on 60.4% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 59.2%. In full:

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 84.9%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Somerset. Cincinnati alone accounts for 39% of it.

“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 Somerset (GNIS 2399836, 39.8066, -82.2996), 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: Perry 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.

By service

• Septic System Repair in Somerset
• Septic Installation in Somerset

Permitting in Perry County

In Perry 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 Perry County detail →