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Dillon County
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.
Septic Installation
Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
Septic System Repair · Septic Installation
The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Dillon — 32,001 acres across 45 soil map units — it rates 95.9% of the land very limited for that use and 3.5% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.
A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Dillon the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 81.4% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 53.4%. In full:
| Limiting feature | Share of area | What it means on site |
|---|---|---|
| Depth to saturated zone | 81.4% | A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface |
| Slow water movement | 53.4% | Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up |
| Seepage, bottom layer | 42.8% | The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered |
| Filtering capacity | 24.8% | The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent |
| Flooding | 16.2% | The site floods often enough to matter |
Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.4%.
The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Dillon. Coxville alone accounts for 14.8% of it.
| Soil or land type | Share | Drainage | Slope | Depth to bedrock | Septic rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxville | 14.8% | Poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Rutlege | 10.9% | Very poorly drained | 0 to 2% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Lakeland | 10.9% | Excessively drained | 0 to 10% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Dothan | 9.3% | Well drained | 0 to 6% | None in profile | Very limited |
| Persanti | 6.2% | Moderately well drained | 0 to 6% | 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 Dillon (GNIS 2404230, 34.4244, -79.3676), 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: Dillon 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.
Septic permitting in Dillon County is handled by the State of South Carolina, through the Department of Environmental Services, not by the county. See the Dillon County detail →