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Title 5 and the town Board of Health side by side, with which value controls, before licensed field work.
A septic feasibility Study gives you the cited rules for a septic system on one parcel: setbacks, nitrogen status, what the project triggers, and funding programs. It combines Massachusetts Title 5 with the town’s Board of Health regulations, and shows which one controls. It’s available for Barnstable, Falmouth and Mashpee.

Start one

Screenshot coming soon: The septic feasibility form
1

Open the septic form

Click New Study, then Looking for septic feasibility instead? under the page heading.
2

Fill it in

  • Town
  • Property address
  • What’s happening: Buying or selling (transfer of title), New construction, or Upgrade or expansion
  • Bedrooms (optional)
3

Run it

Click Run septic feasibility. You can follow each step as it runs.
If the address can’t be matched to the town you picked, the run fails and says so. Check the address and the town.

What the result shows

Screenshot coming soon: A septic feasibility result
  • Nitrogen Sensitive Area status: whether a nitrogen designation applies, the watershed permit status, and any upgrade or new-construction nitrogen requirement.
  • Controlling requirements (Title 5 + local supplement): design flow, reserve area, and each constraint with the state value and the town value side by side. A badge shows which one controls: Town value controls or State value controls. Town requirements with no Title 5 counterpart are listed separately.
  • What this study triggers: the requirements that apply to this transaction, with any statutory window.
  • Before design can start (field work required): the field work needed, who performs it, and the basis for it.
  • Funding programs: programs that may help pay for the work, and who administers them.
  • Known coverage limits: where Urbee’s data for the town is incomplete, when that applies.
Every value is either cited, with the verbatim text and a link to the source, or marked Not found with the sources Urbee searched.
Urbee reports the cited rulebook for the parcel. Soil, groundwater and system-condition facts require licensed field work and are never estimated.

Pre-design memo

Click Generate Pre-Design Memo on the result to create a Septic pre-design memo deliverable you can edit, finalize on your letterhead, and export.