What Kosciusko County, IN's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

88% of Kosciusko County, IN's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. That reading means a conventional system is a poor bet here - 88% of Kosciusko County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. Kosciusko County covers 531.448 square miles and counts 80,669 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Kosciusko County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Kosciusko County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Kosciusko County's rating, plan for the engineered-system range rather than the conventional one. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

How Kosciusko County, IN compares

Nationally, Kosciusko County, IN is the 1,464-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Indiana alone it ranks 64 of 90.

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