Clint Myers Excavating, LLC
On the state bond list for 2026Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
- Phone
- 419-771-8167
- Website
- none
Van Wert County
Septic services in Van Wert, Ohio
Operators based within 12 miles of Van Wert
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.
Garver Excavating LLC
On the state bond list for 2026Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
- Phone
- 419-203-0796
- Website
- none
Mitch Kraner
On the state bond list for 2026Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
- Phone
- 419-203-0311
- Website
- none
Spoor Contracting
On the state bond list for 2026Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
- Phone
- 419-203-6315
- Website
- none
Soil and septic suitability around Van Wert
The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Van Wert — 32,047 acres across 46 soil map units — it rates 98.8% of the land very limited for that use and 0% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.
- Very limited · 98.8%
- Not rated · 1.2%
What the limitation actually is
A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Van Wert the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 98.1% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 90.9%. In full:
| Limiting feature | Share of area | What it means on site |
|---|---|---|
| Depth to saturated zone | 98.1% | A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface |
| Slow water movement | 90.9% | Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up |
| Ponding | 62.2% | Water stands on the surface |
| Flooding | 4.4% | The site floods often enough to matter |
| Seepage, bottom layer | 1.7% | The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered |
Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 98.8%.
The soils themselves
The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Van Wert. Hoytville alone accounts for 32.3% of it.
| Soil or land type | Share | Drainage | Slope | Depth to bedrock | Septic rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoytville | 32.3% | Very poorly drained | 0 to 1% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Pewamo | 24.8% | Very poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Blount | 18.8% | Somewhat poorly drained | 0 to 6% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Nappanee | 7.1% | Somewhat poorly drained | 0 to 6% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Wabasha | 4.3% | 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 Van Wert (GNIS 2397117, 40.8648, -84.5885), 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: Van Wert 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 Van Wert County
In Van Wert 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 Van Wert County detail →