Lincoln County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Lincoln County, ME's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 73.7% of the county. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, and it covers 73.7% of Lincoln County's land. For scale: 455.867 square miles and 36,491 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, ME

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.

Where this sits nationally

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Lincoln County, ME ranks 2,339 most-constrained nationally, and 16 of 16 within Maine.

Before you act on this

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