This page will be updated regularly as information becomes available.

This page will be updated regularly as information becomes available.

Below is a listing of all of the confirmed breached dams to date following Hurricane Florence. The table includes links to inspection reports that have been issued as a result of statewide assessments of dams.

Reports are available in pdf format.

Pre-Florence 2018 Dam - Assessment

Wednesday, September 4, 2019  
This page will be updated regularly as information becomes available. 

Tuesday, September 3, 2019  
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Thursday, September 5, 2019  
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Notice of Drafting

The Notice of Drafting for the 2019 revisions was published in the State Register on Friday, April 26, 2019. The closing date for the public comment period was May 28, 2019.

R.61-9 Notice of Drafting (04-26-2019)

The Department did not receive any comments in response to the Notice of Drafting.

Outstanding School: Williams Middle School

From left to right: Buck Graham (SCDES), Sheila Barnes and Leon McCray, Principal
Williams Middle School, located in Florence, is a great example of a collaborative partnership between the school employees and staff from SCDES's Bureau of Air Quality and Bureau of Environmental Services Region 4 to educate students and parents about important environmental issues by planning, designing, and constructing an Environmental Education Kiosk.

"Receding Tide," Pinkney Island National Wildlife Refuge - Photo by Blake Womick

Download a convenient desk version of the 2021 Tide Chart

Quick Views:

SCDES's Watershed Atlas has multiple data layers and functions, and is mobile-ready. Users can add data, create layers from selected features, export attribute data, view watershed information at their current location, save their sessions, and restore sessions again later.