Washington County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Washington County, MD's SSURGO dominant class comes back "Very limited", covering 55.9% of the county. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, and it covers 55.9% of Washington County's land. For scale: 457.789 square miles and 157,228 people call Washington County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Washington County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. 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 Washington County, MD

Washington 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 Washington County, MD compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Washington County, MD ranks 2,805 most-constrained nationally, and 23 of 23 within Maryland.

Further reading

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems