Why Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, AK isn't rated here
Unrated
This county has no matching soil survey data - too rare a gap to guess at. A local percolation test is the only way to know. Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, AK covers 5,268.076 square miles and is home to 5,746 people, but the dominant soil here carries no SSURGO absorption-field interpretation to report.
This is a county figure, not a parcel figure
This is a countywide, area-weighted figure across every soil survey map unit in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, AK - never a reading for one specific parcel. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area.
System cost, conventional vs. engineered
With no SSURGO rating to go on, Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area has no county-level steer either way on system cost. Nationally, conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 and engineered alternatives run $10,000-$40,000 - which one applies to a lot in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area is exactly what a perc test settles.
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