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Greenwood County hears watershed study; consultants propose monitoring, buyouts and multi-million-dollar projects
Summary
Consultants from Wilford presented a county watershed study identifying 20 flood-priority areas and four priority projects: lake-level monitoring stations (est. $20k–$75k depending on stations), Brookfield Drive improvements ($1.5M), Sample Branch options (1–4.5M range), and Fox Hollow apartment buyouts ($3.28M). Council approved a contract amendment to support grant resubmission and related tasks.
Consultants from Wilford presented the county’s final 2025 watershed study and outlined four priority projects intended to reduce local flood risk and improve emergency egress.
James Riddle and Molly Graham said the study—funded largely through the capital project sales tax—modeled two watershed systems and identified about 20 areas of concern. "We identified about 20 areas of concern," Riddle said, and the study grouped them into tier 1 and tier 2 priorities.
Molly Graham described the four projects the county advanced for further development. One recommendation is installing real-time lake-level and rainfall monitoring stations to allow homeowners associations to lower lake levels before storm events; Graham said, "1 station was about 20 to $25,000, 3 stations being 60 to 75,000, with an annual operating cost…
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