Daybook Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 6, 2009
Charleston Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change
July 13, 2009
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Public comments at 5:30 p.m.
Charleston County Public Services Building
Emergency Operations Center Room B-339
4045 Bridge View Drive
North Charleston, S.C.
COLUMBIA -- Elected and municipal officials along with other community, nonprofit and business leaders from the Charleston region will discuss issues involving shoreline change management at the Charleston Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change July 13 at the Charleston County Public Services Building, 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 Charleston Community Leaders’ Forum on Shoreline Change is organized by DHEC’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management in partnership with S. C. Sea Grant Consortium, the College of Charleston and the City of Folly Beach.
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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