Trident capacity use area 2022 groundwater evaluation report

Abstract

The Trident Capacity Use Area (Trident Area), which includes the whole of Berkeley County, Charleston County, and Dorchester County, was the third of six currently designated areas of South Carolina’s Coastal Plain to be incorporated into the Capacity Use Program. In the parts of the state designated as a Capacity Use Area, a groundwater withdrawer is defined as, “a person withdrawing groundwater in excess of three million gallons during any one month from a single well or from multiple wells under common ownership within a one-mile radius from any one existing or proposed well” (Groundwater Use and Reporting Act, 2000).