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Columbia County septic services.

11 registration-verified providers serve Columbia County in the Northcentral PA region. Every listing is checked against the PA DEP septage hauler registry.

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

Columbia County, at a glance
Registration-verified providers listed11
Permitting authorities 19 local permitting offices
RegionNorthcentral PA
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Providers

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BE
Beaver Valley Farms PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19010 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 205-6616 View profile
BI
Biros Septic and Drain Cleaning, Inc. PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19008 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 889-3738 View profile
BR
Brown’s Septic PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19003 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(717) 759-8829 View profile
FO
Fought’s Septic Services PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19011 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 683-5548 View profile
FR
Franklin Barnes PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19002 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 752-2911 View profile
JL
JLB Systems PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19005 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(717) 784-1653 View profile
RI
Ridge Investment Corp. PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19009 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 387-0902 View profile
RO
Roto-Rooter Sewer & Drain PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19001 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 784-6093 View profile
RO
Roto-Rooter Sewer & Drain Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19007 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(717) 784-6093 View profile
SC
Scott J. Smith Plumbing & Heating PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19012 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(610) 737-6960 View profile
ST
Starr Portables LLC PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 19004 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Columbia

(570) 458-5188 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Columbia Co Sanitary Administration Committee

Covers 15 of this county's 33 municipalities — the rest run their own programme

Your township or borough

18 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:

Beaver Township · Berwick Borough · Briar Creek Borough · Briar Creek Township · Catawissa Borough · Centralia Borough · Cleveland Township · Fishing Creek Township · Greenwood Township · Jackson Township · Madison Township · Main Township · Mifflin Township · Millville Borough · Orange Township · Orangeville Borough · Scott Township · Stillwater 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 Columbia 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 Columbia 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

Columbia County's subdivision ordinance carries a lot-size floor the state does not impose. Table 1 at Section 401.B.1 requires one acre for a single-family detached lot served by on-lot water and an on-lot sewage system, against 10,000 square feet where both public water and public sewage are available, and it sets a minimum width of 100 feet on the on-lot case against 60 feet on the serviced one. Only municipalities without their own ordinance fall under it.

Source: Columbia County, Columbia County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (revised 2018) ↗ · retrieved Aug 6, 2026

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

Environmental protections

Elk Run, Stony Brook, Little Fishing Creek are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 15 further Columbia 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 — § 93.9k ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is bedrock within 60 inches of the surface (64.0% of rated soils), followed by slope (31.7%). NRCS rates 91.9% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 61.9% for a sand mound and 46.2% 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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