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Septic services in Swansea, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Swansea

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.

CBG Inc.

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Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

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Soil and septic suitability around Swansea

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Swansea — 31,996 acres across 73 soil map units — it rates 81.8% of the land very limited for that use and 16.4% somewhat limited, leaving 0.7% with no rated limitation.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Swansea the leading one is slow water movement on 63.9% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 44.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement63.9%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer44.9%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone42.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Filtering capacity7.1%The soil drains so fast it would not filter the effluent
Flooding2.4%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 98.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Swansea. Vaucluse alone accounts for 21.1% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Vaucluse21.1% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Fuquay16.4% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Barnwell14.2% Well drained 0 to 6% None in profile Very limited
Troup12.4% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Norfolk6.3% Well drained 0 to 6% 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 Swansea (GNIS 2406701, 33.7400, -81.1045), 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), Orangeburg County, South Carolina (2025-09-02). 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 →