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Abbeville County

Septic services in Abbeville, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Abbeville

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here was on the SCDES Onsite Wastewater Contractors list on the date its record shows, and the address it is placed by comes from that same list, so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. A South Carolina licence is issued by the state, not by a county, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Soil and septic suitability around Abbeville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Abbeville — 31,999 acres across 35 soil map units — it rates 60.2% of the land very limited for that use and 39% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Abbeville the leading one is slow water movement on 33.5% of the mapped area, followed by depth to bedrock on 24.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement33.5%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to bedrock24.9%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Depth to saturated zone23.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slope23%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Flooding6.4%The site floods often enough to matter

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Abbeville. Cecil alone accounts for 18.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil18.7% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Mecklenburg18.4% Well drained 2 to 15% 44 in Very limited
Cataula16.6% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Hiwassee15.9% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet10% Well drained 10 to 40% 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.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Abbeville (GNIS 2403055, 34.1785, -82.3777), 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: Abbeville County, South Carolina (2025-08-29). Retrieved 2026-09-18.

This is a survey, not an evaluation of your lot. The permit decision rests on the site evaluation SCDES carries out for the specific parcel.

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Permitting in Abbeville County

Septic permitting in Abbeville County is handled by the State of South Carolina, through the Department of Environmental Services, not by the county. See the Abbeville County detail →