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Shelby County septic services.

92 permit-verified providers serve Shelby County in the West Tennessee region. Every listing is checked against TDEC subsurface sewage disposal permit records.

Updated September 1, 2026 · data re-verified against TDEC records

Shelby County, at a glance
Permit-verified providers listed92
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All 92 Septic Repair 86 Septic System Installation 86 Septic Tank Pumping 6

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All-Brite, Inc. TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 840 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett + 17 more

(731) 660-1781 View profile
GU
Guy’s Septic TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 1005 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Fayette, Shelby, Tipton

(901) 840-3331 View profile
NO
Northwest Contracting Services TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 736 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Shelby

(901) 365-6252 View profile
SA
Safety-Quip TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 863 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Shelby

(901) 452-7040 View profile
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United Rentals (North America), Inc DBA Reliable Onsite Services TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 384 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Davidson, Hamilton, Knox, Shelby

(864) 551-3132 View profile
WI
Wind River Environmental dba Mid South Septic TDEC-permitted · active installer or pumper permit
Septic Tank Pumping Contractor · 1014 · Active — checked Aug 30, 2026
Septic Tank Pumping

Serving Fayette, Shelby, Tipton

(901) 867-2085 View profile

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Permits

Who issues them here.

Permit fees, forms & process

Any new system or major repair in Shelby County needs a permit before construction starts. This county’s full guide is still in production — the authority contact is the official source in the meantime.

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Local rules

What’s different in Shelby 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 Tennessee”.

Zoning & land use

Shelby County is one of the nine Tennessee counties TDEC lists as contract counties: they run their own septic system assistance instead of the state field office. Applications go to the Shelby County Health Department's septic tank permitting programme, not to a TDEC Environmental Field Office. Rule 0400-48-01 still sets the design standards statewide — what changes here is the office that reviews the site and issues the permit.

Source: Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Water Resources Contacts for Subsurface Sewage Disposal Systems — septic system assistance, naming the nine contract counties ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Also: Shelby County, Tennessee, Health Department — Septic Tank Permitting Process ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Environmental protections

Nothing in Shelby County changes this. Tennessee’s separation distances are statewide: a disposal field sits at least 50 feet from a water supply and 25 feet from sinkholes, streams, gullies and cut banks, and the state may increase those distances where soils warrant (Rule 0400-48-01-.11). The water table must be at least four feet below the bottom of the disposal field unless soil conditions protect groundwater some other way (Rule 0400-48-01-.04(2)).

How Tennessee permitting works

Checked against Tennessee Secretary of State, Official Compilation of Rules and Regulations, Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0400-40-03 — General Water Quality Criteria, rule .06 Antidegradation Statement, carrying the Exceptional Tennessee Waters categories and the Outstanding National Resource Waters table (effective March 17, 2024) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Also: Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Water Resources, 2026 Final 303(d) List of Impaired and Threatened Waters (EPA-approved final list) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

Geology & soil

A seasonal high water table is the governing constraint in Shelby County, on 73.0% of the soils Tennessee's own NRCS septic interpretation rates, with a fragipan that stops water moving down next at 16.5%. That interpretation puts 69.3% of rated ground in the very limited class for a conventional disposal field, and leaves 18% of the county unrated. A very limited rating is not a bar on building; it means the site needs a design fitted to that constraint rather than a standard trench field.

Source: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO), queried via Soil Data Access — interpretation ENG - Conventional On-Site Septic Systems (TN) (Tennessee survey areas saved 27 August to 2 September 2025) ↗ · retrieved Aug 30, 2026

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