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What Happens When Cheap Land Fails the Septic Test
A perc test measures how fast water drains through the soil. Fail it and there is no conventional septic approval, and without septic approval there is no building permit. After closing your options shrink to an engineered system (more expensive) or a county variance, which is not guaranteed. Run the test before you sign.
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Folks, the lot was cheap. Then it failed the septic test. A perc test measures how fast water drains through the soil. No passing test, no conventional septic system. No septic system, no building permit. Fail it after closing and your options are an engineered system, more expensive, or a county variance, which is not guaranteed. Before you sign, the test takes a few hours of digging and timing drainage. That is the cheaper version of finding out. Check soil first. It's on screen.
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