The county has lost 20 percent of its wetlands over the last 25 years, according to a study Horry County Rising conducted with researchers from AGU, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that ...

Oct. 20-- At the onset of the flood from Hurricane Florence, Horry County officials told residents they should leave their homes if they flooded or nearly flooded in Hurricane Matthew in 2016 ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - Some residents say stricter regulations are needed to keep developers from disturbing the area’s wetlands in Horry County. This comes after one report found Horry ...

Since Florence, the county partnered with Western Carolina University to create updated flood maps for Horry County based on the flooding levels during that major storm.

The green parts are the wetlands, while the yellow is classroom capacity, and the land is blue in a digital mapping system.

Horry County's flood ordinance is now a reality throughout the county, ... When dealing with wetland fill, ... Along with the FEMA flood maps, the county will adopt supplemental flood zones.

Horry County nearing end of yearslong effort to create 3,700-acre wetlands bank ...

Horry County planning commission considered an ordinance that would allow houses in flood zones to be raised up higher to get out of the water’s way. Wetlands ... maps. While the maps still need ...

In the Horry County Envision 2025 plan, it says wetlands are essential components of the landscape and have several functions. One of which is flood hazard reduction.

But the report said Orangeburg, a mid-sized county in the state’s interior south of Columbia, also faces substantial threats to wetlands. Charleston County, for instance, could find a minimum of ...

Horry County SC is considering two tweaks to its planning and zoning rules that could change how development is done, shifting how growth happens in the process ...