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Edgefield County

Septic services in North Augusta, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of North Augusta

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.

Jackson Construction

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Ken Arthur & Associates Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around North Augusta

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of North Augusta — 31,994 acres across 89 soil map units — it rates 54.6% of the land very limited for that use and 35.2% 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 North Augusta the leading one is slow water movement on 29.4% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 26.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement29.4%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer26.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slope15.5%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone14.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding8.4%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 89.8%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around North Augusta. Troup alone accounts for 15.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Troup15.4% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Vaucluse14.4% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Orangeburg8.2% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Lakeland7.4% Excessively drained 0 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Gundy6.3% Well drained 15 to 25% 52 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 North Augusta (GNIS 2404389, 33.5233, -81.9566), 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: Richmond County, Georgia (2025-08-29), Edgefield County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Aiken 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 Edgefield County

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