What Milwaukee County, WI's soil rates for a septic system
Very limited
61.4% of Milwaukee County, WI's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 61.4% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. Milwaukee County, WI is 241.457 square miles with a population of 924,740.
What Milwaukee County's reading doesn't cover
USDA's survey covers the whole of Milwaukee County, WI at once, not any single address. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Milwaukee County will actually do.
What a system would cost here
With 61.4% of Milwaukee County rating "Very limited", a standard gravity system is not a safe assumption here. 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 Milwaukee County, WI compares
Nationally, Milwaukee County, WI is the 2,699-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Wisconsin alone it ranks 72 of 72.
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