Well Drilling
New water wells for homes, farms and new construction, and replacement wells when an old well runs dry, drilled and cased to bedrock by drillers who know the Upstate ground.
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Southern Greenville County keeps filling in. Simpsonville counted 23,354 people at the 2020 Census and about 28,078 by 2024. Out past the new rooftops, land off Fork Shoals Road still sells with no water main. On those lots the water comes from a well, whether the house is new or the old well finally quit.
Core Well Drilling is based in Pacolet, in Spartanburg County, about 30 miles northeast of Simpsonville. We are licensed and bonded, and our drillers bring more than 40 years of drilling experience. We drill new and replacement wells here, set the pump system and run the water line to the house. Call (864) 768-5688 and we will get back to you.
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Simpsonville sits on I-385 in southern Greenville County, and the rig comes over from Pacolet. Greenville County names only two water providers for the whole county, Greenville Water and Greer CPW. Greenville Water reports more than 750,000 residents served on about 3,200 miles of pipe. Its territory covers Greenville County plus parts of Anderson, Pickens and Laurens counties.
That pipe follows the rooftops. Along the I-385 corridor that locals call the Golden Strip, the mains are in. Along Fork Shoals Road, Standing Springs Road and Neely Ferry Road you find older farmsteads and open acreage. Out there a tap at the road is not a given.
Toward Fountain Inn and Gray Court the public water comes from a different body. The Laurens County Water and Sewer Commission covers a district in parts of both Laurens and Greenville counties. It serves Fountain Inn, Laurens and Clinton. Between those systems sit farms and horse property on private water, some of it from an irrigation well.
Simpsonville sits on the Piedmont, the same ground as the rest of the Upstate. Under the red clay is saprolite, a thick layer of weathered rock. Under that is hard crystalline bedrock with almost no open pore space. USGS describes water movement in that bedrock as flow through fractures.
So a well here is not tapping an underground lake. It is intercepting cracks in rock, and the cracks sit where they sit. Two lots on the same road can come in at very different depths. The state well standards require casing set into bedrock, and nobody sees bedrock before the bit gets there.
That is why our written estimate quotes a minimum depth. SCDNR logged an observation well at Brushy Creek Elementary School in Greenville County at 80 feet deep. A Laurens County well at Indian Creek Station ran 194 feet. One of our Inman jobs hit hard rock and found good water past 520 feet.
The state does, and the same goes for septic. Greenville County has directed septic tank applications to the state office on Halton Road in Greenville since January 2020. Under South Carolina Regulation 61-44 a Notice of Intent goes in before the well is built. The driller carries responsibility for that coverage, so the paperwork is our job.
The well standards, Regulation 61-71, set where the hole can go. A well has to sit at least 75 feet from a septic tank or drainfield. Property lines and buildings need at least 5 feet, and lakes and streams need 50. We confirm those distances on the site survey.
When the well is finished the driller files the Water Well Record with the state within thirty days. That record lists the depth, the casing depth and what the well produced. You keep a copy with your house papers. The county side is the building permit for a new house, handled by Greenville County Building Safety at County Square.
Late summer is when the calls come. For the Drought Monitor week of September 8 to 14, 2026, all of Greenville County was abnormally dry. About 92 percent of the county sat in moderate drought or worse. Piedmont wells feel that fast, because the water in them is shallow, local and unconfined.
Old bored wells go first, because a bored well is a wide shallow hole in the weathered layer. That layer dries out before anything else. A drilled rock well reaches fractures far below it. Three SCDNR observation wells in three Upstate counties hit record lows in the same week of September 2000.
The state tells homeowners with a dry well to call a well driller. The options are lowering the pump, deepening the existing hole, or drilling a new well on the property. Sometimes the well has water and the pump or a waterlogged pressure tank is the real problem. Start with well pump repair when there is still water down the hole.
Communities and areas we serve around Simpsonville: Five Forks, Fairview Road, Harrison Bridge Road, Fork Shoals Road, Scuffletown Road, Standing Springs Road, Neely Ferry Road, West Georgia Road, Bridges Road, Neely Farm, River Walk, Heritage Park.
Simpsonville ZIP codes served: 29680, 29681.
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(864) 768-5688 New water wells for homes, farms and new construction, and replacement wells when an old well runs dry, drilled and cased to bedrock by drillers who know the Upstate ground.
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No water at the house, pressure that keeps dropping, or a pump that never shuts off. We check the system in order and repair or replace the part that failed.
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Core Well Drilling installs the complete pump system on new and existing wells. That covers the submersible pump, the pitless adapter, the pressure tank and switch, and the hookup at the house.
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A well pressure tank holds water under pressure so the pump does not run every time a faucet opens. We install and replace pressure tanks across the Upstate, sized to the pump on your well.
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We trench and lay the water line from the wellhead to the house or the barn. Old lines that leak or sit too shallow get replaced the same way.
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Irrigation and farm wells for sprinkler systems, livestock, ponds and pools around the Upstate. We size the pump to the well and run the line out to the field.
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Guys did an excellent job on drilling our well. Got out here in a timely manner. Super nice guys. Highly recommend these guys!
They were very courteous and professional. In two days I had water to my house. I would recommend them to anyone, you won't regret it. It's a very reliable company, and they stand by their work!
Went above and beyond for me to get what I needed done for my new house! Was walked through the process of everything and what to expect if anything goes wrong and I felt as if I was completely ready for anything. You need help, call these guys!
The gentleman that own Core Well were so nice and helpful in explaining about drilling our Well . I would definitely recommend them if you're in need of getting a well done.
Friendly and professional. Did a great job drilling my well at fair price and in timely manner
Very professional
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