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20 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:
Barrett Township · Chestnuthill Township · Coolbaugh Township · Delaware Water Gap Borough · East Stroudsburg Borough · Eldred Township · Hamilton Township · Jackson Township · Middle Smithfield Township · Mount Pocono Borough · Paradise Township · Pocono Township · Polk Township · Price Township · Ross Township · Smithfield Township · Stroud Township · Stroudsburg Borough · Tobyhanna Township · Tunkhannock 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.
Our permit guide covers fees, required professionals and every step.
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
Monroe County has no county subdivision ordinance and no county-wide sewage agency. Its planning commission reports that all 20 municipalities in the county have their own zoning and subdivision and land development ordinances, and DEP's service tabulation lists all 20 as running their own Act 537 program. The county's role in on-lot work is a review signature on the planning module, not a rule of its own — so lot size, setbacks and the permit are all municipal.
Monroe County's streams sit heavily in Pennsylvania's special-protection tiers: Devils Hole Creek, Spruce Cabin Run and McMichael Creek above T434 are Exceptional Value, and the Brodhead, Pocono and Paradise Creek main stems are High Quality. That matters procedurally. Under 25 Pa. Code § 71.51(b)(1)(iii) a lot inside an HQ or EV watershed cannot use the exemption from Act 537 planning, so a planning module goes to the township and then to DEP. Check your own stream: designations change mid-course.
Sixty-two percent of Monroe County is soils formed in glacial till, and the dominant Wellsboro, Lackawanna, Swartswood and Bath series all carry a slowly permeable fragipan. The county soil survey names wetness, slow permeability and shallow depth to bedrock as the main problems for homesites, and rates septic absorption fields severe on most of them. Under 25 Pa. Code § 73.51 a limiting zone shallower than 60 inches forces an elevated sand mound, so budget for a mound rather than a conventional trench.
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