Lincoln County, CO: the USDA septic-suitability picture

Very limited

Lincoln County, CO's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 50.9% of the county. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 50.9% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. For scale: 2,577.73 square miles and 5,598 people call Lincoln County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, CO

Lincoln 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.

Lincoln County's rank among Colorado counties

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Lincoln County, CO ranks 2,864 most-constrained nationally, and 56 of 63 within Colorado.

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