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Lake County
Septic services in Wynnburg, Tennessee
Operators based within 12 miles of Wynnburg
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 Wynnburg
The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Wynnburg — 32,014 acres across 33 soil map units — it rates 89.7% of the land very limited for that use and 0% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.
- Very limited · 89.7%
- Not rated · 10.3%
What the limitation actually is
A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Wynnburg the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 88.7% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 51.2%. In full:
| Limiting feature | Share of area | What it means on site |
|---|---|---|
| Depth to saturated zone | 88.7% | A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface |
| Slow water movement | 51.2% | Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up |
| Flooding | 47.1% | The site floods often enough to matter |
| Ponding | 26.5% | Water stands on the surface |
| Seepage, bottom layer | 4.1% | The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered |
Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 89.7%.
The soils themselves
The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Wynnburg. Roellen alone accounts for 20.8% of it.
| Soil or land type | Share | Drainage | Slope | Depth to bedrock | Septic rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roellen | 20.8% | Poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Reelfoot | 16.7% | Somewhat poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Sharkey | 9% | Poorly drained | 0 to 1% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Tiptonville | 8.5% | Moderately well drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Bowdre | 8% | Somewhat poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.
What that means if you are building or repairing here
A seasonal water table
Some of the ground around Wynnburg carries a water table that rises close to the surface for part of the year and is nowhere to be seen for the rest of it. A field built into saturated soil does not treat effluent and does not drain, and the soil does not have to be wet on the day it is looked at for that to be true — the evidence is in the profile, as mottling and grey colours, which is one of the reasons the work is done by someone trained to read a soil pit rather than by timing water in a hole in August.
Slow-draining soil
The ground around Wynnburg holds water. Tennessee measures this as an absorption rate in minutes per inch, and slow soil does not fail a site so much as enlarge it: the slower the rate, the more trench length the same household needs, and past a point a conventional field stops being approvable at all. A slow site is normally still buildable on a low-pressure pipe or drip design, and that is the point at which the installer list matters, because most licence holders in Tennessee are not endorsed for either.
Ground that floods
The bottomland around Wynnburg floods, and a septic system in it fails in the least pleasant way available. Flooding lifts tanks, backfills fields with silt, and pushes untreated effluent to the surface where people walk. The practical consequence is straightforward and it is about siting rather than design: the field goes out of the floodplain, even when that puts it a long way from the house, and a lot whose only buildable ground is bottomland may not support a system at all.
Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Wynnburg (GNIS 1275211, 36.3287, -89.4734), 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: New Madrid County, Missouri (2025-09-02), Pemiscot County, Missouri (2025-09-02), Lake County, Tennessee (2025-08-28), Obion County, Tennessee (2025-08-29). 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.
Permitting in Lake County
Septic permitting in Lake County is administered by the State of Tennessee, not the county health department. See the Lake County detail →