Septic and cesspool companies in Suffolk County

An independent, hand-verified directory of companies that pump, inspect, repair and install septic systems and cesspools in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York: from Huntington, Babylon, Islip and Smithtown in the west, through Brookhaven and Riverhead, to Southampton, East Hampton and Southold on the East End, plus Shelter Island. Every fact below comes from the company's own website, as recorded in our research. Where a company publishes no address, no rating or no license number on its own site, we say so plainly instead of filling the gap from a directory.

Suffolk County rules: read this first

Suffolk County no longer allows a failed cesspool to be replaced with another cesspool: since July 1, 2019, the minimum replacement is a septic tank plus a leaching structure, and since July 1, 2021, new single-family homes and expansions require an Innovative/Alternative (I/A) OWTS, a nitrogen-reducing system. The county requires Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS) permits, and septic industry businesses are licensed under the Sanitary Code Chapter 563, Article VII. That is why this guide shows a license number only where the company publishes one on its own website: only 3 of the 20 companies in this guide publish a license number on their own site (Long Island Cesspool Co., JET Cesspool Service and East-Nor Cesspool). JET's number is a Consumer Affairs license number whose issuing body is not clarified on its own site; it is not an SCDHS number and must not be presented as one. Every other company either states only that it is licensed and insured, without a number, or publishes no license mention at all. A website claim of being licensed and insured, without a number, is a claim, not a verified credential: ask the company for its license number and verify it yourself with Suffolk County.

What the research found

• 20 companies with their own websites, approved one by one.
• Only 3 of the 20 publish a license number on their own website: Long Island Cesspool Co. (SCDHS Installer #SCDHS-IR-2004-0187 and NYS Pumper #NYS-SEP-PUMP-18422, with an unusual SCDHS number format that deserves independent verification), JET Cesspool Service (Consumer Affairs License #LW-62897, issuer unclear, NOT an SCDHS number) and East-Nor Cesspool (DEC 1A-528, Nassau H0603190000, Suffolk 125-LW). All other license mentions found were claims without a number, or no mention at all (Clifford's, Antorino, Rescue and John K. Ott).
• 12 of the 20 publish a rating with a review count on their own website: Long Island Cesspool Co. (4.9, 312), Drastic Drainage (4.8, 131), Clear River Environmental (4.7, 197), Quality Cesspool (4.7, 46), JET Cesspool Service (4.7, 115+), Quackenbush Cesspools (4.95, 605, with a discrepancy note: one pass found it in the site footer, another did not), Morris Cesspool (5.0, 46), Clifford's Honey Pumper (4.6, 10), Antorino & Sons (4.8, 21), East-Nor Cesspool (4.2, 10), Four Seasons Cesspool (5.0, 246) and Rescue Cesspool & Drain (4.8, 212). Rapid Response Cesspool has no numeric rating: its own site says only 'Top-rated on Google, 100+ reviews', with no star figure. Every other profile shows no rating.
• 0 of the 20 publish a fixed septic price on their own website. The only dollar figures found are ranges and discounts, quoted in the cost guide and labeled as such. Grant and program figures (Suffolk County and New York State programs) are program figures, not company prices.
• Service-area companies serve Suffolk County but publish no street address on their own site. They are marked as such: 5 of the 20 (Long Island Cesspool Co., Certified Cesspool Service, Suffolk Septic Services, A&A Sewer and Drain and John K. Ott Cesspool Service). The other 15 publish a street address.
• Shelter Island is expressly named by only 2 of the 20 on their own lists: Quality Cesspool and Suffolk Septic Services. Most companies claim 'all of Suffolk County' in general without naming every town.
• East-Nor Cesspool is based in Oyster Bay, Nassau County, not in Suffolk, although it serves Suffolk. Hamptons Septic Services covers from Riverhead to Montauk, not all of Suffolk. Clear River Environmental's East End Cesspool Service and Bill Mallins Cesspool are its acquired brands, not independent companies. Certified Cesspool Service and Suffolk Septic Services are listed separately, with a shared-operator note, because they have different domains and phone numbers.
• Companies that could not be verified from their own websites were left out of this guide before review, including lead generators that do not perform services directly; no company was excluded during the one-by-one review, and all 20 presented companies were approved.

All 20 companies

Most of the county runs on septic

Many homes across Suffolk County, from Huntington and Smithtown to Brookhaven, Riverhead and the East End, rely on septic systems and cesspools rather than public sewers. Pumping, inspections and repairs are a routine part of owning one of these systems.