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Washington County

Septic services in Lowell, Ohio

Operators based within 12 miles of Lowell

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 Lowell

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Lowell — 32,037 acres across 141 soil map units — it rates 92.8% of the land very limited for that use and 1.4% 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 Lowell the leading one is slope on 70.4% of the mapped area, followed by depth to bedrock on 66.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope70.4%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to bedrock66.5%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slow water movement63.2%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone12.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer9.7%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 94.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Lowell. Upshur alone accounts for 35.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Upshur35.4% Well drained 2 to 70% 23 in Very limited
Gilpin11.3% Well drained 2 to 70% 24 in Very limited
Vandalia7.8% Well drained 6 to 70% None in profile Very limited
Summitville4.6% Moderately well drained 6 to 70% 24 in Very limited
Haymond3.8% Well drained 0 to 3% 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 Lowell (GNIS 2399194, 39.5294, -81.5076), 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: Noble County, Ohio (2025-09-02), Washington 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 Washington County

In Washington 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 Washington County detail →