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Otter Tail County septic services.

43 license-verified providers serve Otter Tail 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

Otter Tail County, at a glance
License-verified providers listed43
RegionCentral Minnesota
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All 43 Aerobic Systems & Maintenance 3 Septic Inspection 12 Septic Repair 31 Septic System Installation 31 Septic Tank Pumping 15

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BO
Bob’s Lakeside Septic ✓ MPCA Verified
Installer · L4358  +  Maintainer · L4358 · Active — checked Aug 29, 2026
Aerobic Systems & MaintenanceSeptic InspectionSeptic RepairSeptic System Installation

Serving Otter Tail

(218) 864-3004 View profile
CR
Crescent Septic Services LLC ✓ MPCA Verified
Service Provider · L4224  +  Basic Designer · L4224 · Active — checked Aug 29, 2026
Aerobic Systems & MaintenanceSeptic Inspection

Serving Otter Tail

(701) 929-0157 View profile
SU
Super Septic Inc of Pelican Rapids ✓ MPCA Verified
Installer · L901  +  Maintainer · L901 · Active — checked Aug 29, 2026
Aerobic Systems & MaintenanceSeptic InspectionSeptic RepairSeptic System Installation

Serving Otter Tail

(218) 863-3373 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Permit fees, forms & process

Any new system or major repair in Otter Tail 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 Otter Tail 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

Otter Tail County's Sanitation Code (effective January 1, 2024) adds sale-time rules of its own: a compliance inspection plus a county Property Transfer Form filed with the Auditor — future permits for the site are denied until filed — and winter transfers (November 15 to April 15) inspect by the following June 1. Systems under five years old, or inspected within three, are exempt. On lakes and rivers, setbacks follow the county's Shoreland Management Ordinance. MPCA's 2025 report also lists the Otter Tail Water Management District's own SSTS program — confirm which office covers your parcel.

Source: Otter Tail County, Sanitation Code for Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems (adopted June 13, 2023; effective January 1, 2024) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

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

Environmental protections

Nothing in Otter Tail 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 (48.7% of rated soils), followed by water standing on the surface (16.7%). NRCS's Minnesota-specific ratings put 51.7% of rated ground in the very or extremely limited classes for a conventional below-grade trench and 61.1% for a mound.

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

i3 of 4 local factors researched for this county so far. Each one is published with the authority it came from and the date we read it. Methodology

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