SepticRecord

Abbeville County

Septic services in Donalds, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Donalds

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.

Hicks Construction

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Mark Wells

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Matt Hafner

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Donalds

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Donalds — 32,000 acres across 47 soil map units — it rates 38% of the land very limited for that use and 61.2% 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 Donalds the leading one is slope on 26.4% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 16.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope26.4%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone16.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement13%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to bedrock6.6%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Flooding4%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 Donalds. Cecil alone accounts for 49.8% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil49.8% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet14.6% Well drained 10 to 40% None in profile Very limited
Cataula10% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Appling7% Well drained 2 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Hiwassee3.6% Well drained 2 to 15% 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 Donalds (GNIS 2406385, 34.3745, -82.3432), 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), Greenwood 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.

By service

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 →