Turner County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

USDA puts Turner County, SD at "Very limited" for septic absorption fields, the dominant reading across 98.1% of the county's soil. 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: 617.064 square miles and 9,087 people call Turner County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Two lots a mile apart in Turner County can carry different soil, even though they share one countywide rating. 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 Turner County, SD

Turner 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 Turner County, SD compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Turner County, SD ranks 241 most-constrained nationally, and 1 of 66 within South Dakota.

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