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Franklin County

Septic services in Winchester, Tennessee

Operators based within 12 miles of Winchester

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here holds a current state permit, and the address it is placed by comes from the state's own published list — so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. A Tennessee installer permit is valid statewide, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Soil and septic suitability around Winchester

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Winchester — 32,006 acres across 101 soil map units — it rates 36.2% of the land very limited for that use and 56.9% somewhat limited, leaving 0.1% with no rated limitation.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Winchester the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 19.3% of the mapped area, followed by flooding on 17%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone19.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding17%The site floods often enough to matter
Slow water movement7.7%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Slope6.7%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Ponding2.9%Water stands on the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 93.1%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Winchester. Cumberland alone accounts for 15.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cumberland15.7% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Etowah13.4% Well drained 2 to 12% None in profile Somewhat limited
Dewey12.9% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Emory9.3% Well drained 2 to 5% None in profile Very limited
Baxter9% Well drained 2 to 60% None in profile Somewhat limited

“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Winchester (GNIS 1274848, 35.1859, -86.1122), chosen because five of this state's communities are unincorporated and have no boundary to use, and because the lots that need a septic permit are in the ring around a town rather than inside it. Soil from USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access, SSURGO interpretation “ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields”, area-weighted by mapped acreage and by each component's share of its map unit. Survey areas: Franklin County, Tennessee (2025-08-28). Retrieved 2026-09-09.

This is a survey, not a soil map for your lot. A permit needs a high-intensity map of the specific parcel, produced by a TDEC-approved soil consultant — see soil map vs perc test.

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Permitting in Franklin County

Septic permitting in Franklin County is administered by the State of Tennessee, not the county health department. See the Franklin County detail →