Septic Tank Pumping in Douglas County, GA

• Coverage includes Douglasville, Lithia Springs, Winston, Chapel Hill, Fairplay, Bill Arp and the Dog River and Bear Creek areas.
• Crews run I-20, US 78, GA 5, GA 92 and GA 166 across the county.
• Other Georgia counties on this site: Paulding County, Bartow County and Forsyth County.
• Before you call: know whether you need a pump-out, a repair or a letter for a loan or remodel, since Cobb & Douglas Public Health prices each differently.

• Routine pump-outs on older subdivision homes
• Existing system evaluations for loans, remodels and pools
• Pumping before a home sale
• Locating tanks and adding risers
• Repairs and modifications under a county permit
• Field line work on sloped lots

• HomeGuide's published pump-out range is $300 to $700 nationally, based on $0.30 to $0.70 per gallon of tank size; a 1,000-gallon tank lands near the middle.
• County fees from Cobb & Douglas Public Health: $110 for a residential lot site review, $250 for a residential inspection and permit, $170 for a repair or modification and $85 for a minor non-field-line repair.
• Cobb & Douglas Public Health lists $150 for an existing system evaluation, used for loan letters and remodels, and $150 to review a residential pool on a septic lot.
• Method: HomeGuide's per-gallon range scaled to your tank, plus the county fee schedule. Steep driveways and buried lids add local cost.

• Step 1, new systems: Cobb & Douglas Public Health requires a scaled site plan for a new residential system in Douglas County; the lot site review is $110.
• Step 2, permit: the residential inspection and permit fee is $250 on the department's schedule.
• Step 3, repairs: a residential repair or modification permit is $170, and a minor repair that doesn't touch field lines is $85, per the department.
• Step 4, rules: systems follow the Georgia Department of Public Health's onsite sewage rules, Chapter 511-3-1, which the department enforces locally.
• Step 5, fee change: Cobb & Douglas Public Health says a new fee schedule goes into effect January 1, 2027, so check current amounts.

• Piedmont clay: Douglas County's red clay soils over granite and gneiss bedrock absorb slowly, and slopes toward the Chattahoochee and Dog River limit where fields fit.
• USDA NRCS soil survey data rate 51.6% of the Douglas County survey area (GA097) as very limited for septic absorption fields and 46.4% somewhat limited.
• Shallow rock and sloped lots near Dog River and Sweetwater Creek can push a repair toward a different field layout.
• Census ACS counts about 56,187 housing units with a median year built of 1996, so many systems are 25 to 30 years old and due for field checks.
• Heavy summer storms can saturate clay fields and cause slow drains. Homes built before current rules may have smaller tanks or shorter field lines, so a pump-out is a good time to have the field checked too.
• Granite and gneiss near the surface: where rock is shallow, the clay layer above it is thin, and a repair may need a longer field or a pump to reach better soil on the lot.

Douglasville · Lithia Springs · Winston · Chapel Hill · Fairplay · Bill Arp · Dog River