Department of Natural Resources Documents

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources publishes a variety of documents on topics related to the state's natural resources, including management plans, surveys, and regulations.

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    Quick guide : riverine floodplains, development, and maps
    (South Carolina State Library, 2007) South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Flood Mitigation Programs; Association of State Floodplain Managers; RC Quinn Consulting (Firm)
    This Quick Guide for Riverine Floodplains, Development, and Maps is intended to help you understand the basics about watersheds and the floodplains that are found along all of South Carolina’s rivers, streams and creeks. You will learn about methods used to develop and maintain flood maps, and factors that are considered when development is proposed in floodplains.
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    Charleston Harbor dredging project environmental assessment : biological and sediment composition sampling final report
    (South Carolina State Library, 2013-07) Marine Resources Research Institute (S.C.); Sanger, Denise; Crowe, Stacie; Riekerk, George; Levisen, Martin
    The United States Army Corps of Engineers is preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the feasibility of navigation improvements within the Charleston Harbor Estuary. One of the environmental effects of the proposed channel deepening is the potential for increased salt water intrusion within the estuary. This change in the salinity regime has the potential to impact the biological communities in the three river systems.This assessment provides results from quarterly sampling of the macrobenthic community, sediment grain size, and water quality at sites in the Cooper, Ashley, and Wando Rivers that have not been adequately sampled by the South Carolina Estuarine and Coastal Assessment Program.
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    Forage requirements of Brown trout in Lake Jocasse : study completion report
    (South Carolina State Library, 2011-01-09) Taylor, Barbara; Bulak, Jim; South Carolina Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division
    This report details the condition of brown trout in Lake Jocassee.
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    Assessing effects of watershed change on phosphorus loading to Lake Greenwood, South Carolina : supplement : impact of point sources on phosphorus loading to Lake Greenwood final report
    (South Carolina State Library, 2009-06-16) Taylor, Barbara; Bulak, Jim; South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Freshwater Fisheries Research Laboratory
    Our main report demonstrated that the nine major domestic wastewater treatment plants in the Saluda-Reedy watershed contribute substantial loads of phosphorus to the Saluda and Reedy Rivers. In this supplement we use watershed models to quantify the contributions of these facilities to the loads of phosphorus delivered to Lake Greenwood and to predict the impact of reducing the point source loads.
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    Assessing effects of watershed change on phosphorus loading to Lake Greenwood, South Carolina : final report
    (South Carolina State Library, 2008-06-10) South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Freshwater Fisheries Research Laboratory; Taylor, Barbara; Bulak, Jim; McKellar, Hank
    This report covers work on a second study of water quality in Lake Greenwood and the Saluda-Reedy Watershed. This plan for the second study was build a watershed model to predict changes in phosphorus loading to Lake Greenwood resulting from changes in the Saluda-Reedy Watershed, using Hydrologic Simulation Program in Fortran (HSPF). The analysis of watershed data, presented in this report, permits the assessment of the strengths and limitations of the data and establishes a firmer understanding of the watershed processes.