Santee Cooper to add 5% more beneficial veg

[Strick9]

The Carolina Wildlife Syndicate pushed hard for an increase one on one with Santee Cooper.

For those of you who are members of CWS and to the others that also sent the emails , made the calls and attended the meetings, Great Job and Thank you !

This is the ending segment of a three part series that will be better edited in the near future.

In this one, after the stall, you will hear about the increase.

Some things on the horizon that we are still working on with Santee Cooper : carp numbers refined more in line with health indices, better use of selective herbicide spot treatment of invasive veg with sensitivity towards natives, more discriminate use of non selective herbicide treatment and the possibility of some mechanical harvesting especially as related to Water Hyacinth. Of course we will keep pushing for another increase as well.

I know it seems small to some but for our first real push I am happy to hear it. Now to keep those attorneys from tearing it up.

[jwilliams]

Thanks for your work

[smallwater]

I first read that as "Vag". Good job either way!!

[Cypress]

Nice work

[darealdeal]

Nice! Something we can celebrate for sure. Now we can move forward and work on other items!! Thanks again for your hard work!

[cajunwannabe]

So awesome to get folks in agreement to increase critical native vegetation!

[santee11]

Good job!

[NannySlayer]

Can we get them to fire the person over the lakes?

[BOGSTER]

I’m glad to see this, but just a couple of hard facts...

1. The MOA is simply an agreement of a goal, and is in no way a definitive line that must be met.
In layman’s terms, “it’s what we would agree to like to see on paper.”

2. The one and only time that the long-standing, prior MOA of 10% was ever met in 2 decades since the great SAV kill off of 1997, we reached 17k acres of native vegetation and 5k acres of hydrilla (+\-) in 2009.
Within 2 years our very own SCDNR wiped it all out within 3 years.
The MOA, was irrelevant.

[Strick9]

^ Yep, that is very true, That's where holding their feet to the fire comes into play. A lot of money by both SCDNR and Santee Cooper is spent on forming and writing that MOA up.