Operators based within 12 miles of Pine Ridge

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.

Showing the 30 nearest of 33 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Pine Ridge

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Pine Ridge — 31,997 acres across 41 soil map units — it rates 89.3% of the land very limited for that use and 5.9% somewhat limited, leaving 3.3% with no rated limitation.

• Very limited · 89.3%
• Somewhat limited · 5.9%
• Not limited · 3.3%
• Not rated · 1.5%

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Pine Ridge the leading one is seepage, bottom layer on 81.8% of the mapped area, followed by filtering capacity on 36.9%. In full:

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 95.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Pine Ridge. Lakeland alone accounts for 34.1% of it.

“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 Pine Ridge (GNIS 2407120, 33.9023, -81.0926), 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: Calhoun County, South Carolina (2025-09-02), Lexington 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.

By service

• Septic Tank Pumping in Pine Ridge
• Septic System Repair in Pine Ridge
• Septic Installation in Pine Ridge

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 →