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Adams County septic services.

9 registration-verified providers serve Adams County in the Southcentral PA region. Every listing is checked against the PA DEP septage hauler registry.

Updated August 3, 2026 · data re-verified against PA DEP records

Adams County, at a glance
Registration-verified providers listed9
Permitting authorities 34 local permitting offices
RegionSouthcentral PA
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Providers

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B-There Environmental Services LLC PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01007 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 637-9388 View profile
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Donaldson Fruit Farm & Farm Market PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01003 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 642-8477 View profile
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Herick Building & Excavating PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01005 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 359-7851 View profile
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Olinger’s Paving & Septic PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01004 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 752-6498 View profile
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Pumping Time PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01006 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 577-7470 View profile
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Richard E. Weidner, Paving & Excavating PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01002 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 677-7949 View profile
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S.A.F.E. Septic Services PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01008 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 491-1470 View profile
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Shealer’s Septic Tank Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01001 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 334-3565 View profile
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South Central Environmental LLC PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 01009 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Adams

(717) 386-7887 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Your township or borough

34 municipalities run their own Act 537 programme here

Under Act 537 a municipality may administer on-lot permits itself, through its own certified Sewage Enforcement Officer. These do — so the application, the fee and the inspection come from your own township or borough office rather than a county department:

Abbottstown Borough · Arendtsville Borough · Bendersville Borough · Berwick Township · Biglerville Borough · Bonneauville Borough · Butler Township · Carroll Valley Borough · Conewago Township · Cumberland Township · East Berlin Borough · Fairfield Borough · Franklin Township · Freedom Township · Germany Township · Gettysburg Borough · Hamilton Township · Hamiltonban Township · Highland Township · Huntington Township · Latimore Township · Liberty Township · Littlestown Borough · McSherrystown Borough · Menallen Township · Mount Joy Township · Mount Pleasant Township · New Oxford Borough · Oxford Township · Reading Township · Straban Township · Tyrone Township · Union Township · York Springs Borough

Source: PA DEP’s municipal on-lot sewage service-area tabulation, which publishes the agency for each municipality and no contact details — so we print no phone number we cannot source.

Permit fees, forms & process

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

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Local rules

What’s different in Adams 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 Pennsylvania”.

Zoning & land use

Nothing at the county level in Adams County sets a lot-size minimum or a setback for a septic lot. The county's planning office answers the question directly: zoning and subdivision ordinances are adopted and administered by each municipality, and septic questions go to the municipal sewage enforcement officer. DEP's service tabulation agrees on the sewage side, listing all 34 Adams County municipalities as running their own Act 537 programme. Start with the township or borough office.

Source: Adams County, PA, Office of Planning and Development — Planning FAQs ↗ · retrieved Aug 6, 2026

Also: PA Department of Environmental Protection, Municipal On-Lot Sewage Service Areas — Southcentral Region joint local agency service tabulation (updated 3/1/15) ↗ · retrieved Aug 6, 2026

Environmental protections

Carbaugh Run is carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 6 further Adams entries are High Quality. A lot draining to one of them loses the § 71.51(b) planning exemption: the sewage module goes to the municipality and then to DEP, which is a second reviewer and a longer clock rather than a different septic system. Check your own stream on the drainage list before assuming the ordinary path.

Source: PA Department of Environmental Protection, 25 Pa. Code Chapter 93 (Water Quality Standards), Drainage Lists at §§ 93.9a–93.9z — § 93.9o ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is slow-percolating subsoil below 12 inches (69.6% of rated soils), followed by bedrock within 60 inches of the surface (62.3%). NRCS rates 89.0% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 55.7% for a sand mound and 37.4% for drip irrigation -- where conventional is out, drip is often the system that works.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO), queried via Soil Data Access (gSSURGO vintage 21 November 2025) ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 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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