For a proposed household sewage installation in Cuyahoga County Board of Health’s jurisdiction, site review and the installation permit are separate approvals. Start with the Board’s current sewage-program documents, not the County’s older directory entry or a point-of-sale evaluation form. Site-review process · Current document index
Identify which site-review decision you need
The currently linked application distinguishes several situations. Use this comparison to discuss the proposal with the sanitarian:
| Situation | What the application distinguishes |
|---|---|
| Replacing or altering an existing system | A different project category from development of a previously undeveloped lot. |
| A complete new-home proposal | House plans, soil evaluation and the proposed sewage-system site plan. |
| An undeveloped lot without complete designs | Conditional approval, which still requires further review before an installation permit. |
| An early feasibility question | Consultation rather than approval of a completed design. |
| A changed design | Resubmittal when such matters as house location, bedrooms or system design change. |
Conditional approval is the important trap here: it does not mean an unsubmitted design has been approved. The form calls for the actual system and house plans in a further review before permit issuance. It asks applicants to allow at least 30 days after all required documents arrive, with missing information and revisions extending the process. Site-review application, all three pages
Keep the design and installation application consistent
The installation/alteration application asks for the parcel and water supply, bedrooms, treatment components, designer and registered installer. A discharging system has a separate section for its NPDES coverage and discharge information. These are not blank spaces for an owner to estimate an engineered design. Installation application
Before submitting, reconcile three identifiers across the documents: the same parcel, the same proposed house/use, and the same system design revision. Ask the designer or sanitarian to resolve differences. Keep the issued decision with any approved stamped plan; a fee receipt is not that decision.
The form requires an approved design to accompany the application if it is not already on file. It also requires protection of the initial and replacement system areas from traffic and disturbance. Tell delivery and construction crews where the approved protected areas are; do not choose them from this article.
Installation is not the last owner handoff
The application describes an installer-prepared as-built record for completed installation or alteration and a separate operation permit. It also identifies a service-contract requirement. Before the construction contract closes, ask who supplies those records, what continuing service applies and where the owner keeps the final system description. Installation terms
The broader household sewage page is useful for the program contact and system-map route, but its prominent evaluation application is for point-of-sale work. Neither that evaluation nor a public sewer permit substitutes for installation approval.
Documents and limits
LSL read the Board’s operative program pages and all three pages of both linked applications on September 20, 2026. File-upload dates do not establish when every requirement was adopted. The older County directory is retained only to explain the route change, not as the source of today’s form fields. Confirm current fees and property-specific instructions with CCBH; no soil, design, permit or private system was evaluated by LSL.