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Saluda River Basin Plan 2025 Draft
South Carolina Department of Environmental Services The Saluda River Basin Council
South Carolina Department of Environmental Services
The Saluda River Basin Council
Abstract
One of the recommendations from the South Carolina Water Plan, Second Edition was forming advisory committees to develop comprehensive water resource plans for each of the state’s four major river basins: Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE), Pee Dee, Santee, and Savannah (SCDNR 2004). In 2014, when the development of surface water quantity models to support the planning process began, SCDNR and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) decided to further subdivide the basins based on SCDHEC’s delineations used for the Water Quality Assessments. The eight planning basins were the Broad, Catawba, Edisto, Pee Dee, Salkehatchie, Saluda, Santee, and Savannah. In 2022, SCDNR made two adjustments to the planning basins. In the Saluda basin, the drainage area just below the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, which is generally below the Fall Line, was added to the Santee basin. The Savannah basin was subdivided into two planning basins and the portion below Lake Thurmond was combined with the Salkehatchie basin to form the Lower Savannah-Salkehatchie basin. The Saluda RBC is the fourth of the eight RBCs to complete the process that culminated in developing this plan. River basin planning is expected to be an ongoing, long-term process, and this is the first draft of the Saluda River Basin Plan.
Issue Date
2025-04
Keywords
Saluda River (S.C.), Water quality management--South Carolina, Rivers--South Carolina
Type
Document
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