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Saluda County

Septic services in Ridge Spring, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Ridge Spring

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.

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Soil and septic suitability around Ridge Spring

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Ridge Spring — 31,996 acres across 120 soil map units — it rates 30.2% of the land very limited for that use and 68.5% 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 Ridge Spring the leading one is slow water movement on 20.5% of the mapped area, followed by depth to saturated zone on 18.9%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slow water movement20.5%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone18.9%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Seepage, bottom layer11.4%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered
Flooding7.1%The site floods often enough to matter
Slope3.4%The ground is too steep for a conventional field

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 98.7%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Ridge Spring. Faceville alone accounts for 13.6% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Faceville13.6% Well drained 0 to 10% None in profile Somewhat limited
Cecil11.6% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Somewhat limited
Wagram9.6% Well drained 0 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Appling8.6% Well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Somewhat limited
Troup7.7% Somewhat excessively drained 0 to 25% None in profile Somewhat 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 Ridge Spring (GNIS 2407212, 33.8453, -81.6612), 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: Edgefield 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 →