South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

Starting January 1, 2001, the intention to install any well that will withdraw 3 million gallons or more of groundwater in any month in the Coastal Plain, but outside of a Capacity Use Area, must be placed on public notice 30 days prior to drilling. Coastal Plain counties currently outside of a Capacity Use Area include all of Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon, Hampton, Lee, Orangeburg, Sumter, and those portions of Chesterfield, Edgefield, Kershaw, Lexington, Richland, and Saluda counties east or southeast of the fall line (as identified on best available geologic maps).