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Somerset County septic services.

7 registration-verified providers serve Somerset County in the Southwest 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

Somerset County, at a glance
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7
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48 local permitting offices
Region
Southwest PA
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Behon Septic Tank/ Honey Pots PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56005 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 267-9978 View profile
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Behon Septic Tank/Honey Pots PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56002 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 629-9210 View profile
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Brant Excavating, Inc PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56007 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 754-5100 View profile
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Rody Enterprise Inc. PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56006 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 926-9725 View profile
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Smith’s Septic PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56008 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 634-8159 View profile
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St. Clair Construction PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56004 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 754-8272 View profile
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Thomas Hudak Plumbing PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 56003 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Somerset

(814) 754-5697 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Cambria County Sewage Enforcement Agency

Covers 3 of this county's 50 municipalities — the rest run their own program

Your township or borough

47 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:

Addison Borough · Addison Township · Allegheny Township · Benson Borough · Berlin Borough · Black Township · Boswell Borough · Brothersvalley Township · Callimont Borough · Casselman Borough · Central City Borough · Confluence Borough · Elk Lick Township · Fairhope Township · Garrett Borough · Greenville Township · Hooversville Borough · Indian Lake Borough · Jefferson Township · Jenner Township · Jennerstown Borough · Larimer Township · Lincoln Township · Lower Turkeyfoot Township · Meyersdale Borough · Middlecreek Township · Milford Township · New Baltimore Borough · New Centerville Borough · Northampton Township · Paint Borough · Paint Township · Quemahoning Township · Rockwood Borough · Salisbury Borough · Seven Springs Borough · Shanksville Borough · Somerset Borough · Somerset Township · Southampton Township · Stonycreek Township · Stoystown Borough · Summit Township · Upper Turkeyfoot Township · Ursina Borough · Wellersburg Borough · Windber 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.

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Local rules

What’s different in Somerset 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

Somerset County Planning Commission administers a county subdivision and land development ordinance, which under the Municipalities Planning Code reaches municipalities that have not adopted one of their own. On sewage, DEP's service tabulation puts three of the county's 50 municipalities under a cross-county sewage enforcement agency and leaves the other 47 running their own Act 537 program, so for almost all of Somerset County the permit comes from the township or borough.

Source: Somerset County Planning Commission, Somerset County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance ↗ · retrieved Aug 6, 2026

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

Environmental protections

Roaring Run, Clear Shade Creek, Piney Run are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 31 further Somerset 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 — § 93.9n ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is bedrock within 60 inches of the surface (66.7% of rated soils), followed by slow-percolating subsoil below 12 inches (63.3%). NRCS rates 96.5% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 66.1% for a sand mound and 43.0% 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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