SSC is the ideal soil consulting business to evaluate your property, design your septic system, inspect and ensure the construction is sound, and obtain regulatory compliance, so that you can achieve your dreams.
Secondary service area
Augusta
Culpeper
Fauquier
Nelson
Rockingham
Primary service area
Albemarle
Greene
Louisa
Fluvanna
Madison
Orange
Rappahannock
What is the role of a Soil Consultant?
It is often for one of two reasons that most people hire a soil consultant to perform a soil evaluation. When raw land is being purchased, typically the buyer or their lender will wish to know whether the property will “perc” for a conventional septic drainfield. For a "perc test", the design and paperwork are abbreviated, as the goal is to provide information only to aid in the property transaction. However, when the objective of a customer is to build a structure with well and septic utilities or to subdivide land, then regulatory approval will be needed, and therefore additional paperwork will be generated in the form of a permit package.
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