New hand-carved creeks in the Maryville marsh could make the salt marsh more resilient to drought, floods, sea-level rise and climate change and sustain life.
Mount Pleasant HOA is planting native flowers, shrubs and grasses to help stabilize the edges of several eroding stormwater ponds and avoid expensive dredging.
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The city of Conway, SC, utilizing Federal Emergency Management Agency funding, bought the flood-prone properties, tore down the homes and laid plans for an innovative flood mitigation project — a man-made Carolina Bay. The work got started with a dedication ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 15.
South Carolina is littered with retention ponds. While newer ones are subject to tight statewide rules and regulations, older ponds built before the 1990s exist in a regulatory void.