Blog - December 2013

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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.

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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.

Conservationists want tighter laws to protect rivers - Aiken Standard - December 19, 2013
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20131219/AIK0101/131219356/0/SEARCH&slId=6

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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.