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Oconee County

Septic services in Utica, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Utica

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.

Talley Builders Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

3 C's Grading

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Showing the 30 nearest of 62 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Utica

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Utica — 32,002 acres across 52 soil map units — it rates 41.3% of the land very limited for that use and 47.6% 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 Utica the leading one is slope on 51.2% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 9.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope51.2%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Slow water movement9.9%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone4.4%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Depth to bedrock3.2%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Flooding2.7%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 88.9%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Utica. Cecil alone accounts for 42.8% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Cecil42.8% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pacolet30.7% Well drained 6 to 35% None in profile Very limited
Hiwassee6.2% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Bethlehem3.1% Well drained 2 to 25% 27 in Very limited
Cataula1.5% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% 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 Utica (GNIS 2402954, 34.6760, -82.9221), 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: Pickens County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Oconee County Area, 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 Oconee County

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