What is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)?

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is a federal law enacted the Environmental Protection Agency in 1976 that established a regulatory system to track hazardous wastes from the point of generation to disposal. It established a “cradle to grave” process for management of hazardous waste (spent oil, cleaning agents, pesticides, etc.). The law requires the use of safe and secure procedures in treating, transporting, storing, and disposing of hazardous wastes.

• South Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Act
• South Carolina Pollution Control Act
• Regulation 61-79, Hazardous Waste Management Regulations
  • 61-79.124, Permit Administration

• Permits active treatment, storage and disposal facilities
• Guides clean-up actions for thousands of waste management units
• Provides regulatory concurrence to the regulated community and their consultants in Hazardous Waste Management
• Develops South Carolina's Hazardous Waste Management Regulations and seeks authorization from EPA for the State prog

Distribution, Sources, and Migration of Relictand Modern Salt Water in the Upper Floridan Aquifer, Southern Beaufort County,

The Groundwater Use And Reporting Act
(Chapter 5 of Title 49, Section 49-5-10 et. seq. of the 1976 Code as amended)

Regulation 61-113, Groundwater Use and Reporting

South Carolina Surface Water Withdrawal and Reporting Act
(Chapter 4 of Title 49, Section 49-4-10 et. seq. of the 1976 Code as amended)

• Groundwater Withdrawal Permit Application and Directions (PDF-191 KB)
• Water Use Registration (PDF-86 KB)
• Monitoring Well Application (PDF-87KB)

Surface Water

Surface Water Permitting

Six areas within the state have been designated as Capacity Use Areas (see Figure 1). These include the Low Country (Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties), the Pee Dee (Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Marion, Marlboro, and Williamsburg counties), the Trident (Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties), the Waccamaw (Georgetown and Horry counties), the Western (Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Lexington, and Orangeburg counties), and the Santee-Lynches (portions of Chesterfield, Kershaw, and Richland counties, along with Clarendon, Lee, and Sumter counties).

• Hydrology - SCDNR Coastal Plain Water Well Records
• South Carolina Groundwater Data
• 2009 South Carolina State Water Assessment
• United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) -South Carolina Real-Time Groundwater Level Network
• Groundwater Availability i

Effective management of our groundwater resource ensures: