2025 Training Schedule:
Landfill Manager, Class 3 - March 4 - 6 (2.5 days) - Registration Open
Landfill Operator, Class 2 - August 12 - 13 (1.5) days - Registration opening later
Landfill Operator, Class 3 - October 21 -23 (2.5 days) - Registration opening later
Your local environmental quality control office has an inspector who routinely inspects landfills in your area. The inspector has the most current knowledge of a landfill's compliance status. Every 5 years staff from the central office in Columbia review a landfill's file to include these inspection reports, as well as the facility's operation plan.
The S.C. Solid Waste Policy and Management Act of 1991 requires that all permitted landfills, processing facilities, transfer stations, incinerators, composting facilities, and tire processors have a financial assurance mechanism in place to ensure that funds are available for clean-up of the facility at the time of closure and to cover any post-closure care that may be required. Financial assurance is also required for any corrective action at landfills where groundwater contamination has been detected.
This regulation applies to the proper disposal, collection, and recycling of lead-acid batteries and small sealed lead-acid batteries. The regulation requires collection, recycling and recovered material processing facilities accepting lead-acid batteries to register with DHEC. This registration requirement does not apply to persons selling lead-acid batteries or offering lead-acid batteries for retail sale or wholesale who at the point of transfer accept lead-acid batteries only from the customers.
Regulation 61-107.19 Solid Waste Management: Solid Waste Landfills and Structural Fill became effective on May 23, 2008.
The regulation addresses all solid waste landfills and structural fill activity in the State and repeals four existing regulations (R. 61-107.11, R. 61-107.13, R. 61-107.16, and R. 61-107.258) governing these landfills. The new regulation improves solid waste management in four key ways:
The Compliance Group is charged with upholding the requirements in the Solid Waste Policy and Management Act, which states that at least once every five years, the Department shall review the environmental compliance history of each permitted facility. This consists of a thorough file review, a facility inspection, addressing any outstanding issues that are compliance related and addressing any additional items that the Department feels would be in the best interest of the health of the people and the environment of SC.
If your residential well goes dry, you should contact a licensed well driller for assistance. In most of South Carolina, there is plentiful groundwater deeper beneath the ground. There are several things you can try:
| Form Name | DHEC Form # | ePermitting |
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| Notice of Intent - Well location information submitted prior to installation of an individual residential well or irrigation well | D-3647 | Apply Online |
| Water Well Record Form - Well construction i
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