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Dorchester County adopts compensatory-storage rules for floodplain fill after staff, engineers and builders agree on revisions
Summary
Dorchester County Council approved Ordinance 25-15 on third reading, adding compensatory-storage requirements for fill in floodplains after staff incorporated engineering community revisions and council clarified implementation details.
Dorchester County Council on Tuesday approved Ordinance 25-15, which adds a compensatory-storage requirement to the county floodplain code to offset use of fill in the floodplain.
County deputy administrator Jason Formosano introduced the ordinance at third reading and said staff and outside engineers had worked on a revised draft after public comment and technical review. "We have provided for you all tonight as red lines in your packets, the proposed ordinance with revisions, based on really these collaborative discussions between staff and members of the engineering community," Formosano said.
Public works director Sunshine Traicus outlined substantive changes staff made after two weeks of review with the engineering community. Traicus said the red-line revisions (11 items in the summary)…
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