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Potter County septic services.

5 registration-verified providers serve Potter 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

Potter County, at a glance
Registration-verified providers listed5
Permitting authorities 30 local permitting offices
RegionNorthcentral PA
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“Let George Do It” PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 53003 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Potter

(717) 923-9923 View profile
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Johnny of the Spot Porta-Johns PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 53005 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Potter

(814) 260-9153 View profile
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Lehman’s Septic Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 53001 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Potter

(814) 228-3582 View profile
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Leslie’s Septic Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 53002 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Potter

(814) 435-6374 View profile
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Perky Pumper Inc PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 53004 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Potter

(814) 848-7583 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Your township or borough

30 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:

Abbott Township · Allegany Township · Austin Borough · Bingham Township · Clara Township · Coudersport Borough · Eulalia Township · Galeton Borough · Genesee Township · Harrison Township · Hebron Township · Hector Township · Homer Township · Keating Township · Oswayo Borough · Oswayo Township · Pike Township · Pleasant Valley Township · Portage Township · Roulette Township · Sharon Township · Shinglehouse Borough · Stewardson Township · Summit Township · Sweden Township · Sylvania Township · Ulysses Borough · Ulysses Township · West Branch Township · Wharton 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

Any new system or major repair in Potter 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 Potter 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

Potter County's subdivision ordinance sets a hard floor for unsewered lots. Section 603.2 requires a minimum of one acre and 100 feet of width at the front building setback for any lot not served by public sewer, with a 40-foot front setback, and it lets the Planning Commission condition approval on a still larger lot where the sewage enforcement officer finds the soils will not take the effluent. The ordinance governs in every municipality without its own.

Source: Potter County, Potter County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance of 2023 (enacted January 12, 2023) ↗ · 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

Right Branch Big Nelson Run, East Fork Sinnemahoning Creek, UNT 24255 are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 31 further Potter 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 — § 93.9l ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is slope (61.0% of rated soils), followed by slow-percolating subsoil below 12 inches (54.7%). NRCS rates 97.6% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 84.5% for a sand mound and 70.6% 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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