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Stark County

Septic services in Canal Fulton, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Canal Fulton

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.

Showing the 30 nearest of 48 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Canal Fulton

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Canal Fulton — 32,047 acres across 234 soil map units — it rates 94% of the land very limited for that use and 0.2% 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 Canal Fulton the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 63.6% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 33.4%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone63.6%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer33.4%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement28.5%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to cemented pan19%A cemented pan sits too close to the surface
Filtering capacity18.4%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 94.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Canal Fulton. Chili alone accounts for 19.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Chili19.4% Well drained 0 to 50% None in profile Very limited
Canfield17.9% Moderately well drained 0 to 18% 50 in Very limited
Wooster17.4% Well drained 2 to 50% 54 in Very limited
Ravenna6.5% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Carlisle3.2% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% 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 Canal Fulton (GNIS 2393726, 40.8923, -81.5879), 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: Stark County, Ohio (2025-09-08), Summit County, Ohio (2025-09-08), Wayne County, Ohio (2025-09-08). 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 Stark County

In Stark 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 Stark County detail →