Irrigation Wells & Well Repair in Myrtle Beach, SC

Myrtle Beach & Horry County

On the Grand Strand, Wells Water Lawns. They Rarely Supply Houses.

Horry County is served comprehensively by public water along the developed coast, so the household-supply work that dominates our Midlands business barely exists here. What we do on the Grand Strand is irrigation wells — for larger residential lots, HOA common areas, commercial landscaping and golf-adjacent property, all of which get expensive to water on a treated municipal supply through a coastal summer.

The geology is a mixed bag and it needs treating with care. The shallow surficial aquifer near the coast can be brackish or of poor quality, and it is not a sensible target. The productive units are the deeper Peedee and Black Creek sands, which is where a properly designed well is screened. Getting that depth decision wrong is the difference between a well that waters your garden for twenty years and one that puts salt on it.

Iron is the recurring complaint here, and on the coast it is more than cosmetic. Iron-bearing irrigation water stains stucco, light-coloured siding, pool surrounds, driveways and hardscape — and on a coastal property with a lot of pale render, that shows up quickly and does not scrub off easily. Treating at the wellhead, or at minimum designing the zone layout so that iron-bearing water never sprays onto masonry, is worth thinking about before the system is installed rather than after.

One regulatory point: Horry and Georgetown counties fall within a designated groundwater capacity use area, where larger withdrawals are subject to state permitting. Domestic and typical residential irrigation wells sit well below that threshold, but commercial and HOA-scale systems can approach it. We will tell you where your intended withdrawal sits before you commit to a design.