Septic suitability in Rich County, UT

Very limited

Rich County, UT's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 82.9% of the county. A standard gravity system routinely fails on ground like this; the same share of the county falls in USDA's worst absorption-field bucket outright. For scale: 1,028.758 square miles and 2,752 people call Rich County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Nothing about Rich County, UT's SSURGO figure applies to a specific address - it's a county-wide average. 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 Rich County, UT

Rich 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.

How Rich County, UT compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Rich County, UT ranks 1,872 most-constrained nationally, and 7 of 28 within Utah.

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