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Beaufort County

Septic services in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Hilton Head 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.

Aue Land

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Steve Clark

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Hilton Head Island

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Hilton Head Island — 31,444 acres across 17 soil map units — it rates 67.8% of the land very limited for that use and 0% 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 Hilton Head Island the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 55.4% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 46%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone55.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer46%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Filtering capacity22.3%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Flooding18.8%The site floods often enough to matter
Slow water movement16.4%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 67.8%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Hilton Head Island. Bohicket alone accounts for 11.2% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Bohicket11.2% Very poorly drained 0 to 1% None in profile Very limited
Lynn Haven11.2% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Lakeland9.1% Excessively drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Chipley7.3% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Leon6.6% Poorly 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 Hilton Head Island (GNIS 2405841, 32.1903, -80.7384), 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: Beaufort County, South Carolina (2025-09-03). 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 Beaufort County

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