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Septic services in Lowrys, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Lowrys

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.

Bolin Backhoe

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Egm Plumbing

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Lenard Price

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Lowrys

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Lowrys — 32,003 acres across 65 soil map units — it rates 44% of the land very limited for that use and 55.2% 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 Lowrys the leading one is depth to bedrock on 42.4% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 25.4%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to bedrock42.4%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slow water movement25.4%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Slope20%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone13.1%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer11%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 99.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Lowrys. Cecil alone accounts for 23.5% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil23.5% Well drained 2 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Madison21.5% Well drained 2 to 15% 43 in Somewhat limited
Appling7.7% Well drained 2 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Winnsboro6.8% Well drained 2 to 25% 51 in Very limited
Wilkes6.2% Well drained 6 to 40% 18 in 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 Lowrys (GNIS 2406053, 34.8040, -81.2372), 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: Chester County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), York County, 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 Chester County

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