Johnson County Kansas

Trash, recycling, and yard waste collection can vary by the city you live in or whether you live in a Home Owner's Association. Below are a list of cities with links to the appropriate pages on their websites.

This page features information on the solid waste disposal facilities located within Johnson County. This includes a landfill, construction and demolition landfills, transfer stations, and composting facilities. Johnson County Department of Health and Environment regulates all of these facilities.

Approximately 23% of all homes in the United States are served by private sewage treatment systems. There are approximately 9,000 private sewage treatment systems in Johnson County.

A resale inspection is a procedure performed by a JCDHE Environmental Health Specialist to determine the functional status of a private sewage treatment system.

JCDHE licenses installers and designers of private sewage treatment systems regulated under the Johnson County Environmental Sanitary Code, as well as the sanitary disposal contractors, also known as pumpers, who clean the treatment systems and transport the sewage to the disposal site.

A failing system is any private sewage treatment system which, for any reason, does not function as designed or as prescribed by the Johnson County Environmental Sanitary Code.

Any septic tank that is not being used must have the sewage removed by a licensed sanitary disposal contractor.

JCDHE licenses installers and designers of private sewage treatment systems regulated under the Johnson County Environmental Sanitary Code, as well as the sanitary disposal contractors, also known as pumpers, who clean the treatment systems and transport the sewage to the disposal site.

The Commercial/Industrial On-Site Program issues permits to install and operate non-residential septic systems where property owners are not served by a public wastewater collection system.

Businesses and organizations such as churches, schools, government agencies, and non-profit groups, can utilize our Small Quantity Generator disposal program.