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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Spartanburg sits where I-85 meets I-26, and the county keeps filling in around it. Water mains follow the built up roads and the main highways. Out toward Pauline, Cherokee Springs and Cross Anchor, a house runs on its own well. Plenty of those wells went in decades ago, and a dry summer shows it.
Core Well Drilling works out of a shop in Pacolet, about 12 miles from Spartanburg on US-176. We are licensed and bonded, and our drillers bring more than 40 years of drilling experience. Around Spartanburg we drill new water wells and replacement wells for homes, farms and shops. We also handle pump installation, pressure tanks and the water line from the wellhead to the house. Call (864) 768-5688 and we will get back to you.
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Spartanburg Water serves more than 200,000 customers and treats about 26 million gallons a day. It draws from Lake Bowen, Lake Blalock and an older municipal reservoir. The utility puts its retail service area near 259 square miles, with a larger wholesale area outside of that.
Spartanburg County covers more than 800 square miles, so the mains do not reach every road. The county lists five water providers in all. Spartanburg Water, the SJWD Water District, Woodruff-Roebuck Water District, Inman-Campobello Water District and Greer Commission of Public Works split the map between them.
North of the city, Inman and Campobello sit inside the Inman-Campobello district, and Landrum has its own Spartanburg Water system. Past those lines, on the rural roads around Chesnee, New Prospect and Fingerville, many homes pump their own water. The same pattern holds east toward Pacolet, Cowpens, Clifton and Glendale, and south toward Woodruff and Enoree. Across South Carolina, more than one in five residents drinks from a private well.
The Upstate sits on the Piedmont. Red clay and weathered rock, called saprolite, lie over hard crystalline bedrock. The USGS describes water in this ground moving through fractures in the rock rather than open pore space. So a driller is hunting fractures, and the casing is set down into bedrock.
Two logged wells in the county show the spread. A monitoring well at Croft State Park is 225 feet deep with about 54 feet of casing. Another, logged near I-85 and SC-56 in Spartanburg, runs 442 feet with about 51 feet of casing. Both records come from a South Carolina groundwater report.
Yield moves the same way. A study of 1,069 wells in Spartanburg, Greenville and northern Pickens counties found a median near 8 gallons per minute. One hard rock job up in Inman took us a little past 520 feet before we hit good water. That is why drilling a new well starts with a site survey and a written estimate that quotes a minimum depth.
In South Carolina the well permit is a state general permit, not a county one. The driller files a Notice of Intent with the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services before drilling starts. The state also wants notice of the exact date and location before the rig sets up.
The state well standards set the siting rules. A well has to sit at least 75 feet from a septic tank or drainfield, and at least 5 feet from property lines and buildings. Those distances come straight from the well standards, and we confirm them on the site survey. State rules also call for a certified well driller to construct the well.
Septic permits in South Carolina run through the state as well, not a county desk. For a new house in the unincorporated county, the building permit comes from the Spartanburg County Building Codes Department on North Church Street. After the well is finished, the driller files the well record with the state.
Spartanburg County has grown fast. Census estimates put the county near 380,900 people in 2025, up from about 328,000 in the 2020 count. Houses keep going up on land that never had a meter at the driveway. Builders here call for a well before the slab goes down.
Older wells show their age in a dry year. The Croft State Park monitoring well hit the lowest level in its published record in late September 2000, during a drought. In September 2026 the drought monitor listed most of Spartanburg County in moderate drought. State guidance lists a few moves when a well drops. The pump can sometimes be set lower, the well can be deepened, or a new well goes in on the property.
Sometimes the trouble is the pump instead of the water. A pump that runs and never builds pressure points to well pump repair first. Our shop is about 12 miles out on US-176, so Spartanburg is a short run for the rig. The water tank truck and pipe trailer come over the same morning, the way we work the rest of the Upstate towns around Spartanburg.
Communities and areas we serve around Spartanburg: Converse Heights, Hampton Heights, Croft State Park, Roebuck, Moore, Una, Saxon, Arcadia, Fairforest, Glendale, Clifton, Pauline.
Spartanburg ZIP codes served: 29301, 29302, 29303, 29306, 29307.
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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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