15 registration-verified providers serve Cumberland County in the Southcentral PA region. Every listing is checked against the PA DEP septage hauler registry.
Updated August 16, 2026 · listings checked against PA DEP records April 17, 2024
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33 municipalities run their own Act 537 program 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:
Camp Hill Borough · Carlisle Borough · Cooke Township · Dickinson Township · East Pennsboro Township · Hampden Township · Hopewell Township · Lemoyne Borough · Lower Allen Township · Lower Frankford Township · Lower Mifflin Township · Mechanicsburg Borough · Middlesex Township · Monroe Township · Mt Holly Springs Borough · New Cumberland Borough · Newburg Borough · Newville Borough · North Middleton Township · North Newton Township · Penn Township · Shippensburg Borough · Shippensburg Township · Shiremanstown Borough · Silver Spring Township · South Middleton Township · South Newton Township · Southampton Township · Upper Allen Township · Upper Frankford Township · Upper Mifflin Township · West Pennsboro Township · Wormleysburg 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
New installs and major repairs need a permit from the municipality or joint local agency under Act 537, and the rules that bind are the local ones.
This county’s full guide is still in production — the authority contact shown here is the official source in the meantime.
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
Cumberland County's planning department describes its subdivision role as reviewing municipal plans and municipal ordinances, not as administering a county subdivision ordinance, and no Cumberland County SALDO was found. DEP's service tabulation lists all 33 Cumberland County municipalities as running their own Act 537 program. So the sewage permit, the lot-size minimum and the setbacks all come from the township or borough, and the sewage enforcement officer works for it.
Big Spring Creek, Letort Spring Run are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 20 further Cumberland 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.
The dominant constraint here is slow-percolating subsoil below 12 inches (64.1% of rated soils), followed by bedrock within 60 inches of the surface (38.5%). NRCS rates 65.1% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 43.7% for a sand mound and 29.7% for drip irrigation -- where conventional is out, drip is often the system that works.
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