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Septic services in Gilbert, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Gilbert

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.

Barnhill's Services Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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not on file
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Derrick Plumbing Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
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none

J. Miles Riley

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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none

Weco Rooter

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Gilbert

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Gilbert — 31,997 acres across 41 soil map units — it rates 85.7% of the land very limited for that use and 12.1% 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 Gilbert the leading one is seepage, bottom layer on 66.8% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 48.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Seepage, bottom layer66.8%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Slow water movement48.9%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Filtering capacity31.7%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Depth to saturated zone31.1%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding4.7%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 97.8%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Gilbert. Lakeland alone accounts for 29.8% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Lakeland29.8% Excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Blaney17.8% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Fuquay12.7% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Troup7.3% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Vaucluse6.5% Well drained 2 to 25% 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 Gilbert (GNIS 2406568, 33.9241, -81.3910), 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). 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 →