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Originally Posted by Da Nag
When we had our septic installed a couple years back, I thought the same thing. But, you really can't tell anything until holes are dug and perc tests are run. You can have vastly different soil, even on the same piece of property.
According to our soils engineer, he'd seen systems ranging from $6K to $35K. All within 1/4 mile of us, and all on land that to my eye looks identical from the surface.
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Absolutely, only instead of 1/4 mile try 200 feet. They did a perc test on my property. The front had 8 foot of sand above water 200 feet back and the water table was 1 foot down. Seems there's an underground stream.
The cost to install the system was 3500.00 in the sand and would have been 10 to 15,000 out back.
Needless to say the scenery looked better in the front of the property (not really)
so in the end the toilet basically determined where the house was built. 
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