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Published Quarterly by the Pee Dee 

The Pee Dee Progress

Resource Conservation and Development 

Area Council, Incorporated. A Private 

Serving the Counties of 

Chesterfield  Darlington  Dillon   

501 (C) 3 Nonprofit Organization

Pee Dee Regional Urban Forestry Awareness  

Marion  Marlboro

Website    www.peedee.org 

300 Russell Street, Room 209 

The Pee Dee RC&D has received a grant from the Urban and Community Forestry Program of the South 

Email       rcd@peedee.org

Darlington, South Carolina 29532 

Carolina Forestry Commission for a regional urban forestry awareness project. Visit the project website at: 

 (843) 

393 9809

http://peedeeurbanforestry.tripod.com 

March 2003

Spring Edition

                                                                Volume 3  Issue 3

The Pee Dee RC&D is grateful to the local Conservation Partnership; including the NRCS Field Staff, the 

Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners and Staff, SC Department of Natural Resources Field 

Thompson Creek 

Staff, and Citizen Volunteers. Without the support and efforts of the Partnership, many of these projects which 

we coordinate would not exist.

Water Quality Non point Source Assessment 

In This Issue

Pee Dee Resource Conservation and Development Area Council, Incorporated 

                   Chesterfield           Darlington              Dillon 

  Marion 

      Marlboro 

Staff 

Thompson Creek Water 

Cecil Kimrey 

Joyce 

Bill Aston

Jasper Eaddy, 

Bunyon Anderson, 

David Arthur, 

Quality Non point Source 

Franklin, 

Chairman 

Vice Chairman 

RC&D Coordinator

Assessment Project presents 

Cherry McCoy 

Treasurer 

Johnnie 

findings to sponsors. 

Luehrs

Andrew Eaddy 

Anna Hubbard 

Sharon DeWitt, 

Larry Stegner 

Mike Smith 

Administrative 

Planning initiated for an 

Kent Williams

Marion Wright, Jr.

Assistant

implementation phase of the 

Nancy Lee

Hartsell 

project.  Page 1. 

Rogers, Jr.

All programs and services of the Pee Dee Resource Conservation and Development Area Council  are offered on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard 

to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status or handicap.                     

Construction continues at St. 

John's Elementary School 

Nature Center Project in 

Recent rains caused flooding along Thompson Creek as representatives of Local, Federal, 

Darlington.      Page 2. 

and State agencies from North and South Carolina met in Chesterfield, SC on March sixth, 

to discuss the

Assessment Project results and plan an implementation phase based on 

current project findings.  

Progress Energy (CP&L) 

makes donation to further 

Monitoring data collected by the South Carolina Department of Health and 

progress at Baker's Trail, 

the outdoor classroom project 

Environmental Control in the late 1990's required that Thompson Creek upstream of 

at the Blenheim Schools.  

the Town of Chesterfield be placed on the State's list of impaired waters. The Pee Dee 

Page 3. 

RC&D formed a coalition of local, state and federal interest  from North and South 

Carolina to assess the causes of the impairment with the intent of eventually restoring 

the Creek's water quality to acceptable levels.  The assessment phase is nearing 

Pee Dee Land Trust plans  a 

June Membership meeting at 

completion with the primary identified causes being that livestock, mainly beef cattle, 

Kalmia Gardens with Rudy 

have unlimited stream access at many sites; and rainfall runoff contaminated with 

Mancke. Page 3. 

poultry and livestock waste is reaching the stream. The project recommends 

agricultural manager training in the area of manure management, installation of more 

streamside buffers with  filtering vegetation adjacent to fields receiving poultry and 

Pee Dee Regional Urban and 

Community Forestry Project 

livestock waste applications, and excluding livestock from free stream access by 

is underway.  Page 4. 

fencing buffer areas and providing alternative sources of livestock drinking water.  

Current Efforts  Page 2.    

The Project Coalition discussed plans for separate implementation projects, one in 

North Carolina and another in  South Carolina using both federal and state grant 

funding to provide cost sharing to local landusers for voluntarily establishing the 

recommended water quality practices. 

For additional information concerning the Thompson Creek Non point Source Assessment Project, visit: 

 http://thompsoncreek.tripod.com

  or call (843) 393 9809 ext. 4. 

Funding for this project is provided by the US EPA under a section 319 grant through the SC Department of Health 

and Environmental Control (SC DHEC).