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DHEC ponders 'punitive action' for un-permitted mining near Lewis Ocean Bay preserve

DHEC ponders 'punitive action' for un-permitted mining near Lewis Ocean Bay preserve.…

Environmental groups urge DHEC to reconsider approval of Horry County sand mine

Environmental advocacy groups and residents are asking state officials to reconsider their decision to allow a sand, clay and topsoil mine to expand near the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve. The S.C.…

Coastal Conservation League requests review of Edge Road Mine permitting decision

Control (DHEC) for board review of the June 20 DHEC staff decision to issue a permit to Soilutions LLC, authorizing the company to resume operations and begin additional construction on 33 acres at Edge Road Mine, a sand, clay and topsoil mine adjacent to Lewis…

International Drive (Bays & Bears)

International Drive (Bays & Bears).…

SC won’t punish a dirt mine near an Horry nature preserve, but its permit is delayed

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control confirmed Tuesday it won’t punish the operators of a dirt mine on Edge Road near the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve.…

Fighting Back When It's Toxic at the Top | March 2022 E-News

The Conservation League took drone footage of illegal mining at the Edge Mine site near the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve.…

11 Horry County mines operated without permits. Could one of them harm a nature preserve?

And one of those operations has caught the attention of area environmental groups, who worry the mine could harm the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve and the rare wildlife that live there.…

The True Cost of Mining

In Horry County, we pressured DHEC to re-evaluate a permit for a sand mine abutting the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve where federally endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers exist. The work ahead.…

Conservations request DHEC 'Board Review' of permit for Horry Co. mine stalling expansion

Company officials also plan to meet several terms and conditions laid out by DHEC following concern by SCDNR over protected reptiles that could inhabit the site since it neighbors Horry County's Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve.…

Bay Point Island

Bay Point Island. Since 2016, developers have attempted to build a luxury resort on Bay Point Island, a biologically rich barrier island at the mouth of Port Royal Sound.…