South Carolina Dept of Natural Resources

 

https://www.dnr.sc.gov/invasiveweeds/img/apmprogram10.pdf

Invasive Species of the Wetlands of Socastee, SC

Watershed Tools to Use

 Watershed management and monitoring tools are essential in today’s assessment of watersheds and wetland areas.  The tools used will help give us data to compile and look for trends.  The area that I have been researching is the Intracoastal Waterway in Socastee, SC.  My property backs up to the wetlands.  I own 65 feet of wetlands at the back of my property and 35 feet of wetlands to the right side of my property.  Some tools I would like to use in assessing the wetlands are as follows:

Ø  Google Earth

o   This online platform can be used to look at trending topography and flood plains.  Having this platform, it can show us water flow and the use of the land.  Being a free service, Google Earth is essential in understanding your area from an aerial view.

Ø  Dynatrace

o   This online monitoring system is a paid service to cover your monitoring needs for application performance, digital experience, business analytics, AIOps, and infrastructure monitoring.  This service would be able to help provide data.

Ø  USDA

o   This is a GIS-based tool for hydrologic modeling.  A great way to assess watershed runoff and erosion.  Water resource management is essential in any watershed assessment and study.

Watershed Threats: Intracoastal Waterway in Socastee, SC

 Many challenges are being faced every day in the wetlands.  The human population is exploding at an alarming rate and many are moving into the Socastee/Myrtle Beach region.  I spoke with a realtor, and she advised me that 55 families are moving into the region.  Many houses are being built in areas that need to have green space for biodiversity and flood control.

The beautiful Intracoastal Waterway needs to be preserved.  

Some things that I have seen that are threats to the waterway are:

1. water pollution
2. water traffic
3. the trash in the waterway
4. increase of phytoplankton
5. flooding
6. loss of biodiversity along the waterway
7. soil erosion
8. human population building on the waterway
9. deforestation

Carolina Clear: Watershed Organization

 

Please click on the link to view the PowerPoint presentation. Watershed Organization Presentation.pptx

Watershed Water Quality Assessment Pee Dee River Basin 2015

 Watershed Water Quality Assessment 

Pee Dee River Basin 2015

Watershed Information

 PEE DEE Watershed

Photo: https://edna.usgs.gov/watersheds/ws_chars.php?title=Pee%20Dee&name=peedee

The watershed the wetlands of the Intracoastal Waterway are in is called Pee Dee Watershed.  Due to the topography of the land and being level with the sea, we are prone to flooding.  North Carolina is at a higher elevation than the Grand Strand region of South Carolina, so therefore, water flows down the slope toward the sea.

Photo: https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/currents/2018/09/understanding-river-basin-flooding-in-the-carolinas/

photo: https://gis.dhec.sc.gov/Watersheds/docs/WSA_WATERSHED.pdf

Photo: http://scdhec.gov/sites/default/files/docs/HomeAndEnvironment/Docs/Watershed/PEEDEE.pdf

Photo: https://gis.dhec.sc.gov/watersheds/