South Carolina 401 Water Quality Certification Program

1
South Carolina 401 Water Quality Certification
Program

• November 6, 2008
• Chuck Hightower

2
(No Transcript)
3
Number of Permits Processed

• SCDHEC issued 397 401 certifications in 2007
• Additionally SCDHEC issued151 permits for
  construction in navigable waters.

4
Current FERC Projects

• Saluda Hydro FERC
• Catawba-Wateree FERC
• Santee Cooper FERC
• Augusta Canal FERC

5
Saluda Hydro FERC

• Lake Murray Dam
• 50,900 acre impoundment

6
Catawba Wateree FERC

• Seven hydroelectric facilities on 5 reservoirs

7
Santee Cooper FERC

• Lake Murray and Lake Moultrie
• D.O. and fish passage

8
Augusta Canal FERC

• Savannah River between Georgia and South Carolina
• Requires a 401 certification from Georgia and
  South Carolina

9
Pee Dee Coal Fired Power Plant

• Mercury deposition
• Great Pee Dee River is impaired for Mercury in
  fish tissue

10
Two Nuclear Power Plant Projects

• Proposed V.C. Summer plant expansion
• Proposed Lee Nuclear Station

11
Savannah Harbor Dredge Project

• Dissolved Oxygen
• Could result in the conversion of several hundred
  acres of tidally influenced freshwater wetlands
  to salt marsh

12
Cumulative Impacts and Antidegradation
13
Stormwater Demonstrations

• The project is adjacent to a 303(d) listed
  waterbody
• The project will disturb 25 or more acres

14
Community Docks

• In approved shellfish harvesting waters
• Dilution Analysis

15
Questions?

• Chuck Hightower
• 803-898-0369
• hightocw_at_dhec.sc.gov