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South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control - Information Update
February 7, 2014

Friends of the Edisto is committed to protecting and conserving the Edisto River as we know it: the beautiful, pristine, iconic blackwater treasure that flows freely and binds together our South Carolina home.

You have followed FRED’s efforts to respond to the massive water withdrawal from the South Fork Edisto River by the Walther Farms Company.

Now SCDHEC has set a public meeting on this issue for TUESDAY, JANUARY 7th, 2014, AT 6:30 p.m. AT THE AIKEN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE OFFICE AT 2790 WAGENER ROAD IN AIKEN.

I want to urge everyone who can come to attend this public meeting. This is one chance to demonstrate to SCDHEC the depth of public opposition to this incredibly wrong-minded action.

The State Newspaper - December 20, 2013 - http://www.thestate.com/2013/12/20/3169919/green-group-sues-to-stop-mega.html
 

Lawyers for Friends of the Edisto have today filed an action in the South Carolina Administrative Law Court, seeking administrative review of the final decision of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) dated December 6, 2013, declining Board Review of the Agricultural Surface Water Withdrawal Registration and determination to Walther Farms-Windsor, S.C., which was issued by the DHEC Staff on March 21, 2013.

Note to readers: The following Dec 14, 2013 posting by Friends of the Edisto (FRED) presents the first in a series that addressed concerns regarding the Walther Farms registration with SC DHEC to withdraw water from the South Fork Edisto River in Aiken County.