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Douglas County septic services.

26 license-verified providers serve Douglas County in the Central Minnesota region. Every listing is checked against MPCA SSTS license records.

Updated August 30, 2026 · data re-verified against MPCA records

Douglas County, at a glance
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RegionCentral Minnesota
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All 26 Aerobic Systems & Maintenance 1 Septic Inspection 4 Septic Repair 18 Septic System Installation 18 Septic Tank Pumping 6

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Elwood Septic Professionals, LLC ✓ MPCA Verified
Service Provider · L2820  +  Basic Designer · L2820 · Active — checked Aug 29, 2026
Aerobic Systems & MaintenanceSeptic Inspection

Serving Douglas

(320) 815-8297 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Permit fees, forms & process

Any new system or major repair in Douglas County needs a permit before construction starts. This county’s full guide is still in production — the authority contact is the official source in the meantime.

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Local rules

What’s different in Douglas County.

Four things decide what you can build and what it costs: zoning, environmental protections, power for aerobic systems, and the ground itself. We publish each one only where we have checked it — and say so plainly where the answer is “same as the rest of Minnesota”.

Zoning & land use

Douglas County's own SSTS ordinance, required by Minn. Stat. § 115.55, is the permit path for most of the county. MPCA's 2025 annual report lists Alexandria Township's separate SSTS program, and a City of Alexandria program that filed no 2025 report — around Alexandria, confirm which office covers your parcel. The county ordinance may be stricter than the state rules; ask for its written list of differences (subd. 2(c)). The report lists Douglas among the 59 counties requiring a compliance inspection at property transfer.

Source: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 2025 SSTS Annual Report, wq-wwists1-69 (April 2026) — Appendix A and Appendices B1–B3 ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Also: Minn. Stat. § 115.55, Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems (2025 Minnesota Statutes) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Environmental protections

Nothing in Douglas County changes this. Minnesota’s environmental floor is statewide: shoreland rules set septic setbacks from lakes and streams by water class (Minn. R. 6120.3400), and systems in shoreland or wellhead protection areas are held to the three-foot separation standard whatever their age (Minn. R. 7080.1500). A few designated river corridors add stricter district standards of their own.

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Checked against Minnesota DNR, Minn. R. ch. 6105 — Wild, Scenic, and Recreational Rivers: river designations and management plans (designation parts published electronically June 11, 2008) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Also: Minn. Stat. § 103F.365 — Mississippi headwaters definitions, naming the eight member counties (2025 Minnesota Statutes; last amended 2019) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is seasonal soil saturation close to the surface (54.2% of rated soils), followed by water standing on the surface (18.6%). NRCS's Minnesota-specific ratings put 55.9% of rated ground in the very or extremely limited classes for a conventional below-grade trench and 71.2% for a mound -- unusually for Minnesota, the mound rates worse than the trench here.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO), queried via Soil Data Access (Minnesota survey areas saved 10 September 2025) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

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