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Septic services in Carlisle, South Carolina

Operators based within 12 miles of Carlisle

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.

Ivey Septic

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

John L Ward

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Phone
not on file
Website
none

Smith's Farm

Verified against state license roster

Septic System Repair · Septic Installation

Website
none

Soil and septic suitability around Carlisle

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Carlisle — 32,002 acres across 71 soil map units — it rates 80.8% of the land very limited for that use and 18% 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 Carlisle the leading one is slope on 38.9% of the mapped area, followed by slow water movement on 32%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Slope38.9%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Slow water movement32%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Depth to saturated zone30%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Depth to bedrock26.3%Bedrock is too shallow to fit a trench above it
Depth to cemented pan13.5%A cemented pan sits too close to the surface

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 98.8%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Carlisle. Wilkes alone accounts for 18% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Wilkes18% Well drained 2 to 40% 10 in Very limited
Cataula17.8% Moderately well drained 2 to 15% None in profile Very limited
Madison16.8% Well drained 2 to 40% 43 in Somewhat limited
Enon11.9% Well drained 2 to 25% None in profile Very limited
Pacolet5.7% Well drained 15 to 40% 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 Carlisle (GNIS 2405379, 34.5920, -81.4645), 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: Chester County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Fairfield County, South Carolina (2025-08-29), Union County, 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 Union County

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