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Abbeville County

Septic services in Due West, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Due West

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

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Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Mark Wells

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Matt Hafner

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Due West

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Due West — 32,000 acres across 39 soil map units — it rates 38.6% of the land very limited for that use and 60.6% 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 Due West the leading one is slope on 23.9% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 16.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope23.9%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 movement14.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to bedrock10.3%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Flooding5.4%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 Due West. Cecil alone accounts for 49.9% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil49.9% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet11.8% Well drained 10 to 40% None in profile Very limited
Cataula9.1% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Appling6.3% Well drained 2 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Toccoa4.8% Moderately well 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.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Due West (GNIS 2406402, 34.3348, -82.3903), 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.

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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 →