Kent County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Kent County, RI's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 71.7% of the county. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 71.7% of Kent County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. For scale: 168.568 square miles and 172,450 people call Kent County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Kent 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 Kent County, RI

Kent 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.

Kent County's rank among Rhode Island counties

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Kent County, RI ranks 2,411 most-constrained nationally, and 2 of 5 within Rhode Island.

Before you act on this

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