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Septic services in McBee, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of McBee

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.

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Soil and septic suitability around McBee

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of McBee — 32,001 acres across 37 soil map units — it rates 78.5% of the land very limited for that use and 21% 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 McBee the leading one is seepage, bottom layer on 52.7% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 28.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Seepage, bottom layer52.7%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement28.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone24.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding5.9%The site floods often enough to matter
Slope3.1%The ground is too steep for a conventional field

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.5%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around McBee. Alpin alone accounts for 39.9% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Alpin39.9% Excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Ailey17.8% Well drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Candor16.9% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Vaucluse7.2% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Johnston4.1% Very 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 McBee (GNIS 2406121, 34.4670, -80.2571), 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: Chesterfield County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Kershaw 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 Chesterfield County

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