Lancaster County
Lancaster County Conservation District
In short
Lancaster County Conservation District issues 1 permit we publish for Lancaster County, last verified 2026-10-01. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erosion & Sediment Control Plan / Chapter 102 / NPDES Permitonly if it applies to you | Lancaster County Conservation District | LCCD's own Application & Fee Schedule (fees revised effective 1/1/2025, formatting revised 7/11/2025, current and adopted) sets the LCCD service fee for a residential project at $600 (1 unit, under 1 acre disturbed), $610 plus $255 per dwelling unit (1 unit at or over 1 acre, or 2–25 units), or $6,985 plus $205 per unit over 25 (26 or more units); for commercial, multi-family, industrial, agricultural or other projects at $815 (under 1 acre), $1,020 plus $305 per disturbed acre (1–4.49 acres), or $2,545 plus $255 per acre over 5 (5 or more acres); and for timber harvest and road maintenance at $710 under 25 acres, with 25 or more acres billed on the commercial schedule. A standalone Chapter 105 E&S plan review is $100. Chapter 102 permit fees are separate from the LCCD service fee: the NPDES/E&SC Permit/ESCGP-3 filing fee is $1,500 (individual permit) or $500 (general permit), plus a $100-per-disturbed-acre Disturbed Acreage Fee payable to the Commonwealth's Clean Water Fund. | per project/permit, not recurring | 2026-10-01 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Erosion & Sediment Control Plan / Chapter 102 / NPDES Permit
A business in any of the ten industries covered here conducting new construction or other earth-disturbing activity in Lancaster County needs an Erosion & Sediment Control plan approval, and often a Chapter 102/NPDES permit, from the Lancaster County Conservation District (LCCD) — a genuine county-level agency that reviews plans and issues permits on behalf of PA DEP. Per LCCD's own current Application & Fee Schedule, the LCCD service fee for a residential project ranges from $600 for one unit under 1 acre disturbed up to $6,985 plus $205 per unit over 25 for 26 or more units, and for a commercial, multi-family, industrial, agricultural or other project from $815 under 1 acre up to $2,545 plus $255 per acre over 5 for 5 or more acres. Separately, the Chapter 102 NPDES/ESCGP-3 filing fee is $1,500 for an individual permit or $500 for a general permit, plus $100 per disturbed acre payable to the Commonwealth's Clean Water Fund. These are one-time, per-project charges, not a recurring annual fee, and the fee schedule's most recent revision (fees 1/1/2025, formatting 7/11/2025) is the current, adopted version.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Lancaster County
- Phone
- (717) 299-5361 ext. 5
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- LCCD Erosion & Sediment Control Application & Fee Schedule (fees revised 1/1/2025, formatting revised 7/11/2025)Lancaster County Conservation District · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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