Catron County, NM: no USDA soil-survey match

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The dominant soil here (often already-developed urban land) carries no septic-suitability interpretation from USDA - too rare a gap to guess at. A local percolation test is the only way to know. Catron County, NM covers 6,924.187 square miles and is home to 3,795 people, but the dominant soil here carries no SSURGO absorption-field interpretation to report.

What Catron County's reading doesn't cover

Nothing about Catron County, NM's SSURGO figure applies to a specific address - it's a county-wide average. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Catron County will actually do.

What a system would cost here

With no SSURGO rating to go on, Catron County has no county-level steer either way on system cost. Nationally, conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 and engineered alternatives run $10,000-$40,000 - which one applies to a lot in Catron County is exactly what a perc test settles.

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