Septic soil in Paulding County, GA, by the numbers
Very limited
59.3% of Paulding County, GA'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 - 59.3% of Paulding County lands in the strictest "very limited" bucket USDA uses. Paulding County, GA is 312.385 square miles with a population of 188,549.
What Paulding County's reading doesn't cover
Paulding County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A local percolation test, typically $750-$1,850 (around $1,300 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Paulding County will actually do.
What a system would cost here
With 59.3% of Paulding 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.
Paulding County's rank among Georgia counties
Nationally, Paulding County, GA is the 2,732-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Georgia alone it ranks 81 of 159.
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