Grayson County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Grayson County, KY's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 85.7% of the county. A standard gravity system routinely fails on ground like this; the same share of the county falls in USDA's worst absorption-field bucket outright. For scale: 499.536 square miles and 27,070 people call Grayson County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Grayson County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. 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 Grayson County, KY

Grayson 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.

Where this sits nationally

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Grayson County, KY ranks 1,644 most-constrained nationally, and 76 of 119 within Kentucky.

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