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Dorchester County

Septic services in Summerville, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Summerville

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.

Hill's Produce

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Septic Shark LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Vaanra LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Summerville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Summerville — 31,991 acres across 83 soil map units — it rates 92% of the land very limited for that use and 7.6% 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 Summerville the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 97.6% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 35.4%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone97.6%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer35.4%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement28.5%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Flooding16.9%The site floods often enough to matter
Ponding3.6%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 99.6%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Summerville. Izagora alone accounts for 8% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Izagora8% Moderately well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Daleville6.3% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Mouzon6.2% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Bonneau6.1% Well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Somewhat limited
Ocilla6% Somewhat 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 Summerville (GNIS 2406684, 33.0058, -80.1793), 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: Berkeley County, South Carolina (2025-09-03), Dorchester County, South Carolina (2025-09-03), Charleston County Area, 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 Dorchester County

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