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Aiken County

Septic services in Beech Island, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Beech Island

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.

Csra Mhi LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Ken Arthur & Associates Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Beech Island

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Beech Island — 31,994 acres across 47 soil map units — it rates 72.1% of the land very limited for that use and 22.1% 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 Beech Island the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 53.2% of the mapped area, followed by flooding on 36.8%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone53.2%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding36.8%The site floods often enough to matter
Slow water movement36%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer30.6%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slope3.4%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 94.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Beech Island. Vaucluse alone accounts for 13.3% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Vaucluse13.3% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Chewacla12.7% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Riverview9.5% Well drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Orangeburg8.9% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Dothan8.6% Well drained 0 to 10% 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 Beech Island (GNIS 2812928, 33.4286, -81.8903), 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: Richmond County, Georgia (2025-08-29), 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 →