Well Drilling & Pump Repair in Greenville, SC

City on water lines — the county runs on wells

Greenville is the biggest city in the SC Upstate, and inside the city limits — downtown, along the Reedy River and Falls Park, out through Taylors and the built-up suburbs — nearly everyone is on municipal water. That's the honest picture. Private wells live in the rest of the county: the northern foothills up US-25 and US-276 toward Travelers Rest, Marietta, Slater, Cleveland, and Tigerville where the Blue Ridge starts to climb, and the homes on acreage strung out past the water mains toward Greer, Simpsonville, Mauldin, and Fountain Inn. Out along the Saluda and South Saluda Rivers, up around Paris Mountain, and on the wooded lots and small farms of unincorporated Greenville County, families have always drilled their own wells and run their own pumps — and that's exactly who we take care of, the folks a city main never reached.

This is Piedmont country pushing up into the Blue Ridge, so under Greenville County sits hard crystalline rock — granite bedrock, not the sandy coastal aquifer you find down toward the coast. Wells here are drilled straight down into fractured rock, and how deep the driller has to go to hit good water-bearing fractures is what drives the cost. In the northern foothills that rock gets harder and the wells often run deeper, so a mountain-side home can cost more to drill than a flatter lot down toward Simpsonville. That same granite groundwater tends to come up with iron and hardness, so orange staining on sinks and tubs and scale in the water heater are everyday complaints out here. Add a whole generation of submersible pumps set in the 1970s through the 90s that are failing all at once, and there's steady work — new wells for new builds on acreage, and dead pumps that quit with no warning. When a Greenville County home has no water, that's an emergency, and we treat it like one.

Common Greenville-area well calls

• No water / dead pump on rural homes and foothill properties up US-25 and US-276 toward Travelers Rest, Marietta, and Cleveland
• Low pressure or sputtering taps from a failing pump, waterlogged tank, or clogged line
• New well drilling for new construction and homes on acreage outside the city water lines toward Greer, Simpsonville, and Fountain Inn
• Iron & hard-water treatment for the orange staining and scale common in Piedmont granite groundwater
• Pre-sale well inspections for homes changing hands across rural Greenville County