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Horry County

Septic services in Garden City, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Garden City

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.

Elvis Service Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Gpbbarber

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Hudrock LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Garden City

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Garden City — 23,267 acres across 43 soil map units — it rates 89.7% of the land very limited for that use and 0% 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 Garden City the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 80.4% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 60.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone80.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer60.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement24.7%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Filtering capacity17.9%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Flooding15%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 89.7%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Garden City. Ogeechee alone accounts for 12% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Ogeechee12% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Yemassee11.6% Somewhat poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Yauhannah8% Moderately well drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Lakeland6.3% Excessively drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Meggett6.2% 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 Garden City (GNIS 2402515, 33.5917, -79.0066), 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: Georgetown County, South Carolina (2025-09-03), Horry County, 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 Horry County

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