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Calhoun County

Septic services in Cameron, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Cameron

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.

Richard Hall

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Tri-Star Builders

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Cameron

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Cameron — 31,994 acres across 68 soil map units — it rates 72.8% of the land very limited for that use and 22.9% 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 Cameron the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 75.5% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 18.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone75.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement18.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer13.5%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Flooding9.7%The site floods often enough to matter
Ponding3%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 95.7%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Cameron. Noboco alone accounts for 12.1% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Noboco12.1% Well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Rains10.9% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Goldsboro10.6% Moderately well drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Dothan9.2% Well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Orangeburg8.9% 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 Cameron (GNIS 2405368, 33.5580, -80.7150), 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: Calhoun County, South Carolina (2025-09-02), Orangeburg County, South Carolina (2025-09-02). 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 Calhoun County

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