What Blaine County, NE's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

Soil across 98.9% of Blaine County, NE rates "Very limited" in USDA's septic-absorption-field interpretation. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 98.9% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. Blaine County covers 710.702 square miles and counts 454 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Blaine County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Blaine County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Blaine County's rating, plan for the engineered-system range rather than the conventional one. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

Blaine County's rank among Nebraska counties

Nationally, Blaine County, NE is the 113-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Nebraska alone it ranks 6 of 93.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems