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Septic services in Chapin, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Chapin

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.

Turd Burglars

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Turd Burglars LLC

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Chapin

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Chapin — 31,999 acres across 55 soil map units — it rates 44% of the land very limited for that use and 51.4% 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 Chapin the leading one is depth to bedrock on 42.2% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 13%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to bedrock42.2%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Slow water movement13%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Slope11.2%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone10.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer3.8%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 95.4%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Chapin. Georgeville alone accounts for 33.4% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Georgeville33.4% Well drained 2 to 30% None in profile Somewhat limited
Nanford27.3% Well drained 2 to 30% 27 in Very limited
Herndon5% Well drained 2 to 10% 62 in Somewhat limited
Cecil4.8% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Enon4.4% Well drained 2 to 6% 26 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 Chapin (GNIS 2406256, 34.1653, -81.3393), 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: Lexington County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Newberry County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Richland 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 Lexington County

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