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Septic services in Pendleton, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Pendleton

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.

Mr Rooter Plumbing

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Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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3 C's Grading

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Showing the 30 nearest of 69 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Pendleton

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Pendleton — 32,002 acres across 55 soil map units — it rates 36.5% of the land very limited for that use and 60.4% 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 Pendleton the leading one is slope on 28.9% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 13%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope28.9%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone13%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding7.1%The site floods often enough to matter
Slow water movement6.8%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer4.4%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 96.9%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Pendleton. Cecil alone accounts for 38% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil38% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet15.4% Well drained 6 to 40% None in profile Very limited
Hiwassee12.9% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Madison10.8% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Cataula5.8% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% 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 Pendleton (GNIS 2407096, 34.6422, -82.7791), 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: Anderson County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Pickens County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Oconee 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 Anderson County

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