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Covers 22 of this county's 38 municipalities — the rest run their own program
Your township or borough
16 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:
Armagh Borough · Blairsville Borough · Canoe Township · Cherry Tree Borough · Clymer Borough · Creekside Borough · Ernest Borough · Glen Campbell Borough · Homer City Borough · Indiana Borough · Marion Center Borough · Plumville Borough · Saltsburg Borough · Shelocta Borough · Smicksburg Borough · White Township
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
Indiana County imposes a lot-size floor that Pennsylvania law does not. Section 509.6(A)(1) of the county subdivision ordinance requires 150 feet of width at the building line and 43,560 square feet — a full acre — for any lot served by neither public sewer nor public water; with one utility present it drops to 100 feet and 21,780 square feet. The ordinance controls in every township and borough except White, East Wheatfield, Burrell, Indiana, Blairsville and Homer City.
Indiana County has no Exceptional Value waters, but 6 entries on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists are High Quality — including Little Mahoning Creek, South Branch Plum Creek, Clark Run. A lot draining to one loses the § 71.51(b) planning exemption, so the sewage module goes to the municipality and then to DEP. That is a second reviewer, not a different septic system. Check your own stream before assuming the ordinary path.
Indiana County is unglaciated Pittsburgh Low Plateau, and the controlling fact is depth to rock. Its leading soil association, Gilpin-Weikert-Ernest, covers about a third of the county and sits on hard shale or siltstone at roughly 24 inches. The county soil survey calls these soils severely limited for septic filter fields and warns effluent can reach groundwater or surface downslope. That puts the limiting zone well above Chapter 73's 60-inch line, so elevated sand mounds are normal and the shallowest ground may not be permittable.
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