FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 11, 2009
NEWS MEDIA ADVISORY / DAYBOOK ITEM
Beaufort Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change
June 22, 2009
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Public comments at 5:30 p.m.
Technical College of the Lowcountry, Building 12
921 Ribaut Road
Beaufort, S.C.
COLUMBIA -- Elected and municipal officials along with other community, nonprofit and business leaders from the Beaufort region will discuss issues involving shoreline change management at the Beaufort Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change June 22 at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, the state Department of Health and Environmental Control reported today.
Topics will include implications of chronic erosion, gradual sea level rise, increased shoreline development and comprehensive beachfront management planning. A public comment period will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Organized by DHEC in 2007, the Shoreline Change Advisory Committee is an advisory committee of a broad cross-section of stakeholders including scientists, coastal managers, municipal officials, developers, conservationists and legal professionals. The committee’s purpose is to organize existing shoreline research, identify research priority needs and consider policy-related issues concerning management of South Carolina’s estuarine and beachfront shorelines. A report of the committee’s findings is planned for late 2009.
The Beaufort Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change is organized by DHEC’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management in partnership with South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, the Town of Hilton Head Island, the ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce.
For more information on the Shoreline Change Advisory Committee visit
http://www.scdhec.gov/environment/ocrm/science/shoreline_comm.htm
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For more information:
Dan Burger - (843) 953-0251
E-mail burgerdj@dhec.sc.gov
Thom Berry - (803) 898-3885
E-mail berrytw@dhec.sc.gov
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