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Lancaster County

Septic services in Buford, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Buford

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.

Cedric Mingo

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Ditchin, LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Buford

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Buford — 32,003 acres across 45 soil map units — it rates 41.3% of the land very limited for that use and 58.3% 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 Buford the leading one is slow water movement on 20.7% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 17.6%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement20.7%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone17.6%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Depth to bedrock15.9%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slope14.7%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to cemented pan12.6%A cemented pan sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.6%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Buford. Herndon alone accounts for 41.2% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Herndon41.2% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Georgeville18.2% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Gills12.6% Somewhat poorly drained 2 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Manteo6.4% Somewhat excessively drained 2 to 25% 20 in Very limited
Enon5.9% Well drained 2 to 25% 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 Buford (GNIS 2812971, 34.7480, -80.6285), 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: Lancaster 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 Lancaster County

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