Auglaize County septic services.

In rural Auglaize County the building permit comes from the local township trustees rather than from a county building or zoning office, and the county engineer's own guidance for rural building tells a purchaser to get tentative approval of the proposed building site for a sewage system from the Auglaize County Health Department before buying. Two separate approvals from two separate bodies, and neither of them is county zoning.

Auglaize river (Superior High Quality Water, Kelly road (RM 77.32) to Jennings creek (RM 47.02)). Ohio EPA's general permit for discharging household systems (OHK000004, Part II.C.2(e)) bars a new discharge to any of these, or to a tributary within one mile upstream. On those parcels the off-lot discharging route is closed and the system has to be a soil-absorption design, whatever the lot looks like.

The dominant constraint here is water perching on a restrictive layer (41.3% of rated soils), followed by a water table close to the surface (40.9%).