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Venango County septic services.

6 registration-verified providers serve Venango County in the Northwest PA region. Every listing is checked against the PA DEP septage hauler registry.

Updated August 3, 2026 · data re-verified against PA DEP records

Venango County, at a glance
Registration-verified providers listed6
Permitting authorities 25 local permitting offices
RegionNorthwest PA
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Heffern Septic Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61004 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 732-3072 View profile
KA
Kaiser’s Septic Tank Service & Portable Toilets PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61001 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 676-6234 View profile
LA
Landscaping Connections PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61005 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 437-7246 View profile
MA
Machokas Trucking PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61003 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 677-4875 View profile
WE
Weaver Septic Cleaning PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61006 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 498-2340 View profile
ZA
Zacherl Septic Service PA DEP registered septage hauler · April 2024 list
Registered Septage Hauler · 61002 · Active — checked Apr 17, 2024
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Venango

(814) 354-2153 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Mercer County Joint Sewage Agency

Covers 1 of this county's 31 municipalities — the rest run their own programme

Municipal Code Association

Covers 1 of this county's 31 municipalities — the rest run their own programme

Oil Region Authority

Covers 7 of this county's 31 municipalities — the rest run their own programme

Your township or borough

22 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:

Allegheny Township · Barkeyville Borough · Canal Township · Cherrytree Township · Clinton Township · Clintonville Borough · Cooperstown Borough · Cornplanter Township · Emlenton Borough · Franklin City · Mineral Township · Oakland Township · Oil City · Pinegrove Township · Pleasantville Borough · Rockland Township · Rouseville Borough · Sandycreek Township · Scrubgrass Township · Sugarcreek Borough · Utica Borough · Victory 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 Venango 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 Venango 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

Venango County's subdivision ordinance applies only in municipalities that have not adopted one of their own, and it does not set a lot-size number: minimum lot area and the other dimensional requirements are those of the applicable zoning district. Sewage permitting is split — DEP's tabulation puts seven of the county's 31 municipalities under the Oil Region Authority and two more under other joint agencies, leaving 22 running their own programme.

Source: Venango County Board of Commissioners, Venango County Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (approved by the Regional Planning Commission September 20, 2011; adopted November 15, 2011) ↗ · retrieved Aug 6, 2026

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

Environmental protections

Hemlock Creek, Dennison Run are carried on DEP's Chapter 93 drainage lists as Exceptional Value, and 3 further Venango 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 — § 93.9q ↗ · retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Geology & soil

The dominant constraint here is slow-percolating subsoil below 12 inches (81.0% of rated soils), followed by a seasonal high water table (75.5%). NRCS rates 97.1% of rated ground very limited for a conventional in-ground trench, 76.1% for a sand mound and 62.6% 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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