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Septic services in Tradesville, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Tradesville

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.

4JS Construction

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Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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B P LLC

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Cedric Mingo

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Ditchin, LLC

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Graves Plumbing

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Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Tradesville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Tradesville — 32,003 acres across 76 soil map units — it rates 70.2% of the land very limited for that use and 29.2% 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 Tradesville the leading one is depth to bedrock on 55.6% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 33.5%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to bedrock55.6%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Seepage, bottom layer33.5%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slope30.7%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone16.1%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Slow water movement13.2%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.4%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Tradesville. Herndon alone accounts for 19.3% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Herndon19.3% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Manteo15.3% Somewhat excessively drained 2 to 35% 20 in Very limited
Goldston15% Well drained 2 to 45% 11 in Very limited
Badin12% Well drained 2 to 45% 28 in Very limited
Georgeville10.5% 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 Tradesville (GNIS 2812970, 34.7709, -80.5502), 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: Union County, North Carolina (2025-08-27), Chesterfield County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), 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 →