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Septic services in Promised Land, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Promised Land

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.

C M Backhoe

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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E J Sullivan

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Promised Land

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Promised Land — 31,998 acres across 69 soil map units — it rates 36.8% of the land very limited for that use and 62.1% 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 Promised Land the leading one is slope on 24.7% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 14.2%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope24.7%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Slow water movement14.2%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone11.8%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding8%The site floods often enough to matter
Depth to bedrock5.8%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 98.9%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Promised Land. Cecil alone accounts for 28.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil28.4% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Hiwassee27.5% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet10.2% Well drained 10 to 40% None in profile Very limited
Enon7.7% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Wilkes3.4% Well drained 2 to 40% 15 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 Promised Land (GNIS 2403452, 34.1277, -82.2307), 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: Abbeville County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Greenwood 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 Greenwood County

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