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SOUTH CAROLINA PROJECTS

• Surface Water
  • Stormwater Runoff
  • Live Bed Scour
  • Estimating Flood Magnitude and Frequency
  • Maryland Abutment-Scour
  • Hydrology Monitoring Network
  • Waccamaw and Pee Dee River Basins

• Groundwater
  • Chesterfield County Region
  • Atlantic Coastal Groundwater Availability
  • Phytoremediation
  • Phreatophytes and GW Contamination
  • Catawba-Wateree Groundwater

• Water Quality
  • Tree Coring User's Guide
  • Parris Island
  • Remediation of Fuel Oxygenates
  • TOXIC Hydrology

USGS IN YOUR STATE

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Santee River Basin Study
Project Maps and Spatial Data

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Water Quality Sampling Sites

The Santee River Basin and coastal drainages (the “Santee Basin”) is an approximately 24,000-square-mile area in North and South Carolina that encompasses the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain (Fenneman, 1946). Most of the 3.5 million people in the Santee Basin live in urban areas. Eighty-six percent of the water used in homes and for industry is treated surface water withdrawn from rivers or reservoirs. Ground water is the main water source for rural households.

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