F.O.G. (FATS, OILS, AND GREASE) POLLUTION
What is F.O.G.? F.O.G. stands for fats, oils, and grease that are found in kitchens as an ingredient for, or by-product of, food preparation. Examples of F.O.G. include: cooking oil (vegetable,...
Category: Water
Maintaining Your Freshwater Shoreline
Planting a vegetative shoreline buffer, known as shorescaping, stabilizes the shoreline, slows sedimentation in ponds, and filters surface runoff. An established, healthy buffer reduces the need for...
E. coli & Water Health
South Carolina’s Waterway Health Clean water is essential for recreation, public drinking water, aquatic life, agriculture, and other industries. South Carolina residents are fortunate to live in a...
E. coli, Swimming Safety, Citizen Science, and YOU!
Any day now, temperatures should drop, and we will begin what I believe to be the best season in South Carolina – the Fall! This is not just a football-induced admiration. Fall is a great time to be...
Citizen Science Monitoring with SC Adopt-a-Stream
Introduction to Citizen Science Purpose: No matter where you live in South Carolina and no matter your occupation, your quality of life is affected by water quality. From the water we drink to the...
How to prepare your well for the next flood: Evacuation Preparations and Return Home
You can take action to better prepare your well for a flood, even as you are making plans to evacuate. Store adequate bottled water for drinking and cooking because if your well is submerged even...
Landscape Irrigation Management Part 7: Water Saving Materials in the Landscape
Polyacrylamide (or PAM as it is also known) is marketed in many areas as a soil additive used to increase a soil’s water holding capacity. It is a synthetic compound that is typically sold as soft,...
Supplemental Feeding for Recreational Pond
Introduction South Carolina’s recreational fish ponds with quality forage bases are capable of producing quality sustainable fisheries. Pond management practices that enhance the forage quantity and...
Soil Building for Watershed Health
Many people think of soil as they are washing red stains out of jeans, digging in the garden, or seeing the long rows carved into the earth and sprouting a favorite summer vegetable. In all of this...
Rain Garden Plants: Callicarpa americana
Rain gardens are small-scale stormwater best management practices that protect water quality while also adding beauty to the landscape and providing wildlife habitat. Callicarpa americana, from the...
Rain Garden Plants: Iris versicolor and Iris virginica
A rain garden is a shallow (6 – 12 inch deep) vegetated depression designed to capture stormwater runoff and allow the water to soak into the soil. These gardens can function as natural filters...
Conserving Water in Your Landscape
Water is a precious natural resource that should be conserved in all endeavors concerning landscape management. In urban areas as much as 60% of all water usage goes to maintaining landscapes. Much...