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Septic services in Travelers Rest, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Travelers Rest

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.

Joe Gilreath

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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RW Grading

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Lisa Gibson

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Showing the 30 nearest of 96 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Travelers Rest

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Travelers Rest — 32,004 acres across 41 soil map units — it rates 40.9% of the land very limited for that use and 58.4% 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 Travelers Rest the leading one is slope on 46.6% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 10.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope46.6%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone10.5%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer7.9%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to bedrock7.6%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Flooding7.4%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 99.3%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Travelers Rest. Hiwassee alone accounts for 28.9% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Hiwassee28.9% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Cecil28.1% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet18.9% Well drained 10 to 40% None in profile Very limited
Bethlehem4.3% Well drained 2 to 25% 28 in Very limited
Cartecay3.1% 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 Travelers Rest (GNIS 2405599, 34.9600, -82.4450), 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: Greenville 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 Greenville County

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