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Kershaw County

Septic services in Bethune, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Bethune

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.

Soil and septic suitability around Bethune

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Bethune — 32,000 acres across 60 soil map units — it rates 71.9% of the land very limited for that use and 27.6% 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 Bethune the leading one is seepage, bottom layer on 44.6% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 39.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Seepage, bottom layer44.6%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone39.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement21.8%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Filtering capacity20.6%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Flooding17.7%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 99.5%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Bethune. Lakeland alone accounts for 20.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Lakeland20.6% Excessively drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Blanton10.3% Moderately well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Alpin8.2% Excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Ailey7.4% Well drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Wagram6.1% Well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Somewhat 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 Bethune (GNIS 2405256, 34.4142, -80.3487), 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: Chesterfield County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Kershaw 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.

Permitting in Kershaw County

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