Well Drilling & Repair in Greenville, SC

Greenville County Well Service

Greenville County Sits on Hard Piedmont Rock. Well Drilling Here Isn't for Beginners.

Greenville County occupies the upper Piedmont of South Carolina, where the ancient crystalline basement rock — granite, gneiss, and schist — dominates the subsurface. This is the same hard-rock geology that requires rotary drilling equipment rather than the cable-tool or air rotary rigs adequate for softer formations elsewhere in the state. Wells in Greenville County typically range from 200–400 feet, and in the more rugged terrain approaching the Blue Ridge foothills, some go deeper.

Despite Greenville being the most urbanized metro in South Carolina, the county contains enormous rural and suburban territory where private wells are the only water source. From rural Simpsonville and Fountain Inn to the rural northwest county near Travelers Rest and Cleveland, hundreds of thousands of Greenville County residents are on well water. Many of those wells were drilled in the 1970s and 1980s — and the pumps and pressure systems installed then are well past their design life.

Hard water is essentially universal in Greenville County wells. The crystalline Piedmont rock is rich in calcium and magnesium, which dissolve into groundwater and emerge at the tap as scale-forming hardness. Iron and manganese are also present in many Upstate wells, staining fixtures and affecting taste. Our free water analysis quantifies exactly what you're dealing with before we recommend any treatment.

Austin Drilling is based in the Midlands but has been serving Upstate South Carolina throughout our 66-year history. Our rotary rigs are built for the hard granite formations of the Piedmont — it's the same geology we drill through in Lexington, Newberry, and Fairfield counties closer to home.