6 registration-verified providers serve Susquehanna County in the Northeast 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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Covers 21 of this county's 40 municipalities — the rest run their own program
Your township or borough
19 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:
Apolacon Township · Clifford Township · Forest City Borough · Forest Lake Township · Franklin Township · Great Bend Borough · Hallstead Borough · Harford Township · Harmony Township · Jessup Township · Lathrop Township · Lenox Township · Montrose Borough · New Milford Township · Oakland Borough · Springville Township · Susquehanna Depot Borough · Thompson Township · Union Dale 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
Susquehanna County sets its own lot-size floor. Table VI-1 of the county subdivision ordinance requires 43,560 square feet — one acre — for a single-family lot served by on-site sewage, whether the water is a well or a community supply, and 65,340 for a two-family lot; Section 607.5(B) additionally requires every such lot to contain ground actually suitable for the system. On sewage permitting, DEP's tabulation puts 21 of the county's 40 municipalities under the COG Sewage Enforcement Committee.
Silver Creek, McCormick Run, UNT 29200 to Tunkhannock Creek are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 7 further Susquehanna 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 (91.1% of rated soils), followed by a seasonal high water table (70.7%). NRCS rates 96.4% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 90.0% for a sand mound and 72.4% for drip irrigation -- where conventional is out, drip is often the system that works.
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