Find your county

Alabama writes septic rules at the state level and applies them at the county level. Two counties working from the same rulebook can run very different offices, with different numbers, different branch counts, and different amounts of information published at all.

• Cullman County

  Cullman County sits north of the Birmingham metro, and most of it is outside municipal sewer service.

  1 health department office · 8 communities

• Talladega County

  Talladega County is unusual for the region in that its health department runs two separate environmental offices rather than one.

  2 health department branches · 6 communities

• Madison County

  Madison County is the largest market in north Alabama and the one where septic questions come up most often for a specific reason: Huntsville has grown outward fast, and the land it has grown onto was rural.

  1 health department office · 8 communities

• Limestone County

  Limestone County sits directly west of Madison, and a large share of its growth is people priced out of Huntsville buying land in and around Athens.

  1 health department office · 7 communities

• Etowah County

  Etowah County runs along the Coosa River below the southern end of Lookout Mountain, and the terrain matters here more than in the flatter counties to the west.

  1 health department office · 7 communities

Counties get added when there is real, verifiable local information to publish. A page that swaps a county name into the same text is not worth your time.