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Aiken County

Septic services in Aiken, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Aiken

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.

Ken Arthur & Associates Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
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Soil and septic suitability around Aiken

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Aiken — 31,994 acres across 35 soil map units — it rates 60.7% of the land very limited for that use and 38.9% 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 Aiken the leading one is slow water movement on 53.1% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 33.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement53.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer33.9%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone20.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Filtering capacity5.4%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Slope5.2%The ground is too steep for a conventional field

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.6%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Aiken. Vaucluse alone accounts for 26% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Vaucluse26% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Troup15.9% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Ailey10.4% Well drained 2 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Fuquay9.8% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Faceville8.7% Well drained 0 to 10% 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 Aiken (GNIS 2403067, 33.5316, -81.7251), 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: Aiken County Area, 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 Aiken County

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