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Saluda County

Septic services in Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Batesburg-Leesville

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.

Derrick Plumbing Inc.

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

J. Miles Riley

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Peach Tree Septic

Verified against state license roster

Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Batesburg-Leesville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Batesburg-Leesville — 31,997 acres across 130 soil map units — it rates 56.6% of the land very limited for that use and 39.6% somewhat limited, leaving 1.7% 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 Batesburg-Leesville the leading one is slow water movement on 45% of the mapped area, followed by seepage, bottom layer on 32.2%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement45%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Seepage, bottom layer32.2%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Depth to saturated zone32%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding4.7%The site floods often enough to matter
Depth to bedrock3.3%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 96.2%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Batesburg-Leesville. Appling alone accounts for 18.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Appling18.6% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Blaney14.6% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Cecil7.9% Well drained 0 to 20% None in profile Somewhat limited
Pelion7.1% Moderately well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Very limited
Barnwell6.5% 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 Batesburg-Leesville (GNIS 1253572, 33.9133, -81.5281), 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), Saluda County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Aiken 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 Saluda County

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