Box Elder County, UT Septic Rating

Box Elder County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

USDA puts Box Elder County, UT at "Very limited" for septic absorption fields, the dominant reading across 76% of the county's soil. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, covering that same share of Box Elder County's land. For scale: 5,781 square miles and 64,120 people call Box Elder County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Two lots a mile apart in Box Elder County can carry different soil, even though they share one countywide rating. The real answer for one lot is still a site-specific perc test, running about $750-$1,850 (typically near $1,300).

Budgeting for a system in Box Elder County, UT

Box Elder County's soil reading pushes the likely outcome toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one. Conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 where they pass; where they don't, engineered alternatives (mound or aerobic treatment, whichever the health department requires) run $10,000-$40,000 - budget toward the higher figure until a perc test says otherwise.

How Box Elder County, UT compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Box Elder County, UT ranks 2,237 most-constrained nationally, and 15 of 28 within Utah.

Further reading

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