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Aiken County

Septic services in Salley, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Salley

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.

Coleman's

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
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Soil and septic suitability around Salley

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Salley — 31,995 acres across 62 soil map units — it rates 65% of the land very limited for that use and 34.1% 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 Salley the leading one is slow water movement on 52.4% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 51.3%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement52.4%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone51.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer15.8%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Flooding11%The site floods often enough to matter
Ponding7.4%Water stands on the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.1%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Salley. Fuquay alone accounts for 24.9% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Fuquay24.9% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Troup19.4% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Dothan12.9% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Johnston7.3% Very poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Orangeburg6.1% 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 Salley (GNIS 2407277, 33.5669, -81.3037), 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: Orangeburg County, South Carolina (2025-09-02), 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 →