Septic installation and repair, grading and land clearing in Siloam, Georgia, an east Greene County town with town water and no sewer.SILOAM SEPTIC & EXCAVATION — CLAY COUNTRY OFF EXIT 138.

Siloam started in the 1840s as Smyrna and took its present name when a post office opened in 1871. Today it is a crossroads: SR 15 is Main Street, running seven miles northwest to Greensboro and five and a half south to White Plains; SR 77 runs north to Union Point; and I-20 brushes the north side of town at Exit 138. Town hall is at 4000 Hwy 77 South, and the private Nathanael Greene Academy uses the town's 1929 red-brick high school.↗↗↗

The only industry on EPA's water-permit rolls in Siloam is the Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company's quarry. That says plenty about the ground. NRCS maps the town center as Pacolet sandy loam on 6 to 15 percent slopes, moderately eroded: well-drained red clay subsoil over soft weathered rock that starts about three feet down.↗↗↗

Pacolet drains well, but on those slopes the work is in the grading. Georgia's manual bars fields on slopes over 25 percent without a soil classifier's special study, and it requires the soil evaluation and perc tests to be redone if cuts or fill change the depth of a planned field. Cutting a house pad first and asking about septic second is the expensive order on a Siloam hillside.↗