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Pickens County

Septic services in Six Mile, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Six Mile

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.

TJ&B Trucking

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

3 C's Grading

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Brooks Septic Tank

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Showing the 30 nearest of 67 operators based within 12 miles. The rest are on the county page.

Soil and septic suitability around Six Mile

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Six Mile — 32,003 acres across 45 soil map units — it rates 60.9% of the land very limited for that use and 38.1% 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 Six Mile the leading one is slope on 60.9% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 5.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope60.9%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Depth to saturated zone5.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding4.3%The site floods often enough to matter
Seepage, bottom layer4.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to bedrock3%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Six Mile. Pacolet alone accounts for 51.7% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Pacolet51.7% Well drained 2 to 80% None in profile Very limited
Cecil35.2% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Toccoa3.6% Well drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Hiwassee2.3% Well drained 2 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Bethlehem1.5% Well drained 2 to 10% 27 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 Six Mile (GNIS 2407347, 34.8093, -82.8116), 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 Pickens County

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