Technical Documents - Water Resources
Best Management Practices
The control of nonpoint pollution in the U.S. is based on the identification and promotion of best management practices or BMPs, including retention ponds (contain permanent water storage), detention and extended detention ponds (dry out between storms), vegetative filter strips or buffers, and infiltration BMPs, such as infiltration trenches, medians and swales.
- Review of Nonpoint Source Pollution and Best Management Practices Along the SC Coast by D. Mac Kelley, Jr.; 1993. (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3)
- Stormwater Pond Maintenance by Ward Reynolds, Lisa Hajjar & Tess Rodgers; 2000.
- Maintaining Water Quality Through Stormwater Controls
- DHEC OCRM Stormwater BMP Handbook
- Complete Handbook
- Erosion Prevention Measures
- Sediment Controls
- Runoff Control and Conveyance Measures
- Alternative Erosion Prevention and Sediment BMPs & Post Construction Water Quality Controls
- Non Structural Low Impact Development Controls
- Structural Controls
- Innovative Technologies and Ideal Model
- Appendices (zip)
- Standard Details (zip)
- Figures (zip)
- New! DHEC OCRM BMP Field Manual
- Complete Handbook
- Erosion Prevention BMPs
- Sediment Control BMPs
- Runoff Control and Conveyance Measures
- Alternative Erosion Prevention and Sediment BMPs
- Post Construction Water Quality Controls
- Non Structural Low Impact Development Controls
- Structural Controls
- Special Construction Operation BMPs
- Waste Management BMPs
- Standard Details Guide
- Standard Details
- References
- Autocad Files (zip)
Dredging
Depending on how and where it is accomplished, the disposal of dredged material may have substantial effects upon natural resources in the disposal area. Currently, more than 3.8 million cubic meters of material are removed annually from the channels of the estuary to maintain adequate water depths for Charleston's ship traffic.
- Dredging and Spoil Disposal Needs Assessment (123 pages, 5.5 MB)
- Questionnaire for marina owners and operators
- Dredging and Disposal Alternatives and Techniques for South Carolina Coastal Marinas
- A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of Possible Dredge Disposal by Paul Brockington and E.C. Poplin; 1992.
- Environmental Assessment for Alternative Dredged Material for Disposal Sites in Charleston Harbor by Fred A. Holland, D.E. Porter, R.F. Van Dolah, R.H. Dunlap, G.A. Steele and S.M. Upchurch; 1993..
- Spawning Locations Determined by Acoustic Sampling for Spotted Seatrout, Red Drum and Black Drum in Charleston Harbor by W.A. Roumillat; 1999.
Golf Courses
Maintain non-chemically treated vegetative buffer zones of at least fifty feet adjacent to all natural watercourses to assist in filtering nutrients and pesticides in runoff and to moderate water temperatures.
- Golf Course Best Management Practices Literature Review by Steve Klaine; 1994.
- Environmentally Sensitive Techniques in Golf Course Management: A Model Study at the Ocean Course Kiawah Island, SC by Steve Klaine, Vincent A. Leopold, Michael J. Hooper, Ronald J. Kendall, James L. Cowles, Frank C. Bailey, Barry L. Forsythe II, Carol P. Weiskopf, Thomas W. Lapoint, Landon C. Miller, AA Fouts and Thomas R. Rainwater; 1995.
- An Environmentally Friendly Coastal Golf Course: An Architect and Supertindents's Manual by Steve Klaine, Thomas Rainwater and Barry Forsythe; 1995.
Pollution and Water Contamination
- A Study of Wood Preservative Leachates from Docks in an Estuarine Environment by P.H. Wendt, R. F. Van Dolah, M. Y. Bobo, T. D. Mathews and M. V. Levisen; 1995.
- Enforcement of NPDES Permits by G. I. Scott, T. Shearer and R.E. Thompson; 1998.
- Storm Water Impacts on Creeks, Variability of Secondary Estuarine Watershed Creeks by Phillip Dustin. (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3)
- 1994 Report of the Isle of Palms Connector Study for the Charleston Harbor Project by Philippe E. Ross and Paige A. Leitman; 1994.
- Building A Better Bridge: A Study of the Isle of Palms Connector by Philippe E. Ross; 1995.
- The Center for Watershed Protection
- Stormwater Strategies: Community Responses to Runoff Pollution-Strategies in the South East by the Natural Resource Defense Council; 1999.
- Maintaining Water Quality Through Stormwater Controls
- Polluted Runoff: Lessons Learned from the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR) by the NERR/NOAA; 2000.
- Review of Nonpoint Source Pollution and Best Management Practices Along the SC Coast by D. Mac Kelley, Jr.; 1993. (Part 1/Part 2/Part 3)
- Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Inorganic Nitrogen and Phosphorus Distributions in the Goose Creek Estuary: Cooper River/Charleston Harbor Estuary System by Adriene P. Douglas; 1995.
- Harmful Algal Blooms in US Waters by the National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources; 2000.
- Clean Coastal Waters: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Nutrient Pollution by the National Research Council; 2000.
Septic Systems
- Field Evaluation of Four Onsite Disposal Systems and Their Impacts to Shallow Ground Water in the Coastal Zone of SC by Lisa Hajjar. (Part 1/ Part 2)
- An Examination of Onsite Wastewater Disposal Policy in the Coastal Zone: Implications for the Charleston Harbor Project Area by David M. Szymanski; 1994. (Part 1/Part 2)
- Septic Tank Absorption System Design Aid and Site Suitability Evaluation Tool for South Carolina Coastal Soils by Michael E. Meadows; 1997. (Part 1/Part 2)
- Evaluation of Analytical Profile Indexing, Fatty Acid Profiling Analysis and Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis Analysis of E. Coli Bacteria in Environmental Samples to Identify Pollution Sources by G.P. Richards, G. Seaborn, B.C. Thompson & G.I. Scott, NMFS; 1997. (Part 1/Part 2)