Septic System Questions and Answers

A conventional system has a septic tank, the lines, a distribution box and a drain field. The state permit for your lot sets the size of the tank and the field. By state rule, the smallest tank is 1,000 gallons for up to four bedrooms, plus 250 per extra bedroom. The field is sized from the bedroom count and the soil.

We price each job after we look at the lot. The price depends on the size of the tank and the drain field. Clay soil needs a much bigger field than sandy soil, and clearing adds to the job. You get a free estimate in writing before any work starts.

South Carolina stopped using perc tests to judge septic sites in the late 1970s. Today SCDES, the state agency that took over septic permits from DHEC, evaluates the soil and the site. Clarendon County lots fall under its regional office in Sumter. A passing lot gets a permit to construct, which your county needs before it issues a building permit.

Yes. Levelset2 is licensed and insured. New septic systems are our main work, and we also repair and replace failed ones. Routine pumping is a job for a pumping company.

Yes, we install septic systems for lake houses. State rules keep the tank and the drain field at least 75 feet back from the lake's high water line. In Clarendon County, the water table rises within 18 inches of the surface on over half the land. The state's soil borings show how high it gets on your lot, and that shapes the drain field.

Yes, and Census figures put mobile homes at about one in three homes across Clarendon County. We build mobile home septic systems for buyers and for the dealers who set the homes. A manufactured home needs its septic permit before it is moved onto the lot. State rules keep the tank and field 5 feet or more from the home, and never under the driveway.

It depends on what failed. Cracked lids, broken baffles, crushed lines and a failed distribution box are jobs for septic system repair. Soggy ground over the field may call for drain field repair with new lines. When the whole system is past saving, septic system replacement puts in a new tank and field.

Yes, both sit alongside our septic work. We clear homesite lots of up to about five acres, often as the first step of a septic job. We also take on demolition of houses and mobile homes and remove the debris. The property owner and the utility company handle the utility shutoffs first.

Summerton sits at the center of our service area. We work about 50 miles out, on the east side of South Carolina. That takes in towns like Sumter, Manning, Orangeburg and Kingstree.