SCDES Announces Public Meeting to Introduce Draft Santee River Basin Plan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 21, 2025
COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The S.C. Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) announces a public meeting on Nov 18, 2025, in Moncks Corner to introduce the draft Santee River Basin Plan to the basin’s stakeholders.
The draft plan was developed over a 10-month period by the Santee River Basin Council, a working group of stakeholders with water interests in the basin, under the guidance of the South Carolina State Water Planning Framework that was published in 2019. The plan is the seventh of eight River Basin Plans completed over the last four years for each of the eight planning basins in the state. The draft Santee River Basin Plan includes an assessment of current and future water availability in the basin and documents water management strategies that can help ensure water is available for all future uses in the basin for the next 50 years.
The draft Santee River Basin Plan is available for review and download on the SCDES Hydrology website at des.sc.gov/santeebasinplanning.
The Nov. 18 public meeting will serve as a venue for presenting the draft plan to the basin’s stakeholders and for soliciting comments about it. Public comments will be accepted from Nov. 18 through Dec. 17; comment submission instructions are at the website noted above.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to meet River Basin Council members and enjoy light refreshments beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Public meeting location and time:
Nov. 18, 2025, 5:30-8 p.m. Santee Cooper Main Office 1 Riverwood Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461
Public involvement is critical to the goal of ensuring that future generations of South Carolinians have secure, well-managed supplies of our most critical natural resource: water.
Download a copy of the South Carolina State Water Planning Framework and learn more about the South Carolina river basin planning process at des.sc.gov/waterplanning.
