East Carroll Parish's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

East Carroll Parish, LA's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 90.5% of the county. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 90.5% of East Carroll Parish lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. For scale: 421.231 square miles and 6,892 people call East Carroll Parish home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Nothing about East Carroll Parish, LA's SSURGO figure applies to a specific address - it's a county-wide average. 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 East Carroll Parish, LA

East Carroll Parish'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.

East Carroll Parish's rank among Louisiana counties

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, East Carroll Parish, LA ranks 1,214 most-constrained nationally, and 17 of 61 within Louisiana.

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