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Stark County

Septic services in Marlboro, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Marlboro

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.

Lehman Drain

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Atomic Sewer, LLC

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Huffman Excavating

On the state bond list for 2026

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Showing the 30 nearest of 43 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Marlboro

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Marlboro — 32,048 acres across 125 soil map units — it rates 96.9% 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 Marlboro the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 88.5% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 33.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone88.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement33.9%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer13.8%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Ponding12.2%Water stands on the surface
Depth to cemented pan7.7%A cemented pan sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 96.9%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Marlboro. Canfield alone accounts for 18.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Canfield18.7% Moderately well drained 0 to 18% 30 in Very limited
Ravenna17.9% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Wadsworth13.4% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 12% 30 in Very limited
Chili6.2% Well drained 0 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Rittman5.2% Moderately well drained 2 to 18% 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 Marlboro (GNIS 2628928, 40.9506, -81.2169), 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: Portage County, Ohio (2025-09-03), Stark 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 →