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Planning for the Future YOUR OCONEE Planning for the Future April 2019: Natural Resources & Community Facilities THE OCONEE COUNTY 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2 | The Journal YOUR OCONEE: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE April 2019 THE OCONEE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ... is a state-required document that provides guidance for the county — the administration, council UPCOMING and private citizens — for the coming decade. To get input from the community for the goals and strategies in the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, the MEETINGS county is producing a series of special sections to break down the data and offer you a chance to District Drop-Ins provide feedback. Wednesday, April 24 This is the second of five monthly sections that will cover the 10 elements of the plan. District 3: Seneca Library • 4 p.m. Thursday, May 2 Natural Resources Community Facilities District 1: Keowee Elementary • 6 p.m. Thursday, May 14 Nestled at the base of the Blue Ridge This element focuses on the activities and entities District 4: Long Creek Fire Dept. • 4 p.m. Mountains and featuring lakes Jocassee, Keowee that are essential to maintaining Oconee County’s Wednesday, May 22 health, safety, growth and quality lifestyle. These and Hartwell, Oconee County has abundant District 5: Ravenel Elementary • 6 p.m. natural resources. Even a quick trip to the include government facilities and infrastructure, fire protection, health and emergency medical grocery store can showcase the county’s multiple services, education, libraries and cultural facilities. Tuesday, April 23 lakes, parks and trails, rivers, streams, waterfalls Continued growth has resulted in increased and forests. Budget, Finance and Administration demands on community facilities throughout Committee • 4:30 p.m. These natural resources provide land for the county. Governmental facilities, like the development with scenic and environmental Department on Health and Social Services, County Council • 6 p.m. amenities, while offering an have been expanded to provide opportunity for sustainable much-needed space to better serve Thursday, May 2 development. The appeal of citizens. Continued renovations and Parks, Recreation and Tourism • 12 p.m. natural resources — for aesthetic Let our advance maintenance of existing facilities has and recreational use — can worrying continued to be a part of the ongoing Monday, May 6 also increase land development work of the county. Planning Commission • 6 p.m. pressures to accommodate both become advance Several changes have occurred in new residents and tourists. the area of Emergency Management Tuesday, May 7 thinking and and Fire Service throughout the The resulting challenge is to Budget, Finance and Administration planning. county, which should continue to Committee • 4:30 p.m. achieve a balance in natural serve the county well in the years to resources planning that promotes – Winston Churchill come. Transportation Committee • 4:30 p.m. productive use of land and On the whole, Oconee County is County Council • 6 p.m. resources, maintenance of critical served by modern, relatively efficient ecological functions, and protection of residents community facilities. In fact, compared to those Monday, May 13 and property from natural hazards. living in other areas of similar size and population, Agricultural Advisory Board • 6:30 p.m. The natural resources element includes Oconee’s residents are fortunate in many ways. information on local geographic and geologic The challenge facing the county, however, is Monday, May 20 conditions, climate, agricultural and forest not to simply maintain what exists now, but to Planning Commission • 6 p.m. lands, plant and animal habitats, scenic provide for the expansions and upgrades that will areas, water resources and other factors that be necessary in the coming years. Most sources Tuesday, May 21 significantly impact the natural environment indicate that the population of Oconee County Budget, Finance and Administration will continue to grow rapidly in the foreseeable and shape the future development of Oconee Committee • 4:30 p.m. future. Therefore, for citizens to maintain control County. A thorough look at the county’s natural of how their community develops, it will require County Council • 6 p.m. resources inventory must be taken into account planning years in advance. If the county is not All meetings take place in during planning efforts to avoid depletion or adequately prepared to manage future challenges, destruction of sensitive, and often irreplaceable, it will be run over by them. The area’s community council chambers at assets. Valuing and investing in efforts to protect facilities, which play a major role in establishing 415 S. Pine Street, Walhalla. and improve our natural resources supports the and maintaining the county’s lifestyle, are quality of life for all county residents. accordingly of vital interest. êCan’t make the meeting but still want to keep up? Questions or comments? Oconee County meetings are recorded You can reach Oconee County Planning Director Adam Chapman live and available to watch at YouTube. at [email protected] or (864) 364-5103. com/YourOconee April 2019 YOUR OCONEE: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE The Journal | 3 OCONEE COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES Natural Resources Element takes a look at the opportunities and assets Oconee County has by simply existing. This chapter showcases the things we don’t have much control over — from the air we breathe to the water we drink — and the ways we spend our time outdoors and utilize the land. Oconee County AIR QUALITY ▶ As of February, all 46 South Carolina counties are within the threshold for ambient air quality. >626 However, increased urbanization in the nearby SQUARE MILES Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin area may impact Nearly 50 Are Water, the air quality in Oconee County. Primarily Lakes 2016 ESTIMATION ▶ Local leaders should monitor the factors that Lake Jocassee contribute to higher ozone levels to maintain acceptable levels and ensure the health of the county. parks and facilities are owned and maintained County has been rated as “very by Oconee County, eight by the city of Seneca, limited” for septic tank soil absorption. seven by the city of Walhalla, five by the city of The soils in much of the Sumter National LAND RESOURCES Westminster and one by the town of West Union. ▶ With more than 626 square miles, Oconee is Forest are included in this soil rating, in large part the 26th largest county in the state. Nearly 50 due to the steeper sloping topography. of those are water — primarily lakes Jocassee, ▶ An additional 30.2 percent of county soils are SURFACE WATER Keowee and Hartwell. rated as “somewhat limited,” indicating that the ▶ Oconee County has an abundance of surface ▶ Soil erosion is a concern for more than 60 soils have features that are moderately favorable water generally sustained by rainfall, including percent of the county. Less than half of the for use as a septic system absorption field. several major water bodies as well as numerous county’s land is considered to be at moderate risk rivers, creeks, ponds and streams. Surface water of erosion, and 15.4 percent of the county has a accounts for more than 99 percent of the public “severe” or “very severe” rating. OUTDOOR RECREATION water supply in Oconee County. ▶ There are 32 county and municipal outdoor ▶ The soils at the most severe risk are in the park and recreation facilities encompassing nearly Sumter National Forest. Loss of soil productivity 553 acres in Oconee County. Eleven of the THE LAKES and off-site damage is more likely ▶ At 56,000 acres, Lake Hartwell is the largest on these lands where erosion control water body that extends into Oconee County. Full measures are typically costly and pool elevation for Lake Hartwell is 660 feet above impractical to employ. mean sea level, with a maximum depth of 185 feet ▶ Elevation in Oconee County and an average depth of 45 feet. ranges from 638-3,180 feet above ▶ Lake Keowee was formed in 1970 and has two sea level. distinct halves. Much of the 18,372-acre lake is 800 feet above mean sea level, with a maximum depth of 297 feet and average depth of 53 feet. DEVELOPMENT LIMITATIONS ▶ Lake Jocassee was created in 1973 with the ▶ According to the USDA, more South Cove Park construction of the Jocassee Dam. The 7,565-acre than two-thirds of land in Oconee has a full pool elevation of 1,110 feet above mean 4 | The Journal YOUR OCONEE: PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE April 2019 sea level. It has an average depth of 157 feet, though its deepest point is Foothills Trail 351 feet. WATER USE ▶ Water suppliers withdraw more than 10.8 million gallons of water daily in Oconee County for domestic, commercial, industrial and public use. Of the water withdrawn, 0.24 million gallons are drawn from surface water sources Brasstown Falls such as lakes, rivers, and streams and 10.58 million gallons from county’s groundwater were withdrawn for groundwater sources beneath the earth’s irrigation use and 30.49 million gallons for surface. golf course use. FROM DISMAL ▶ There are nine watersheds SURFACE WATER — five in the TO DREAMY Seneca River sub- basin and four t was a miserable, rainy day the first time I laid eyes in the Tugaloo on Oconee County. River sub-basin My sister, who lived in Marietta, Ga., when I was — that impact interviewing for my first real “big girl” job, told Oconee County. me I just had to apply to The Journal. She’d been The Chauga, camping with some friends who lived in Anderson and Coneross and Ithought the area would be right up my alley. Little River- I did some research and found I agreed, Lake Keowee applied and made the trip up for a January watersheds cover interview. the largest areas. I hated it. The weather was dismal, I couldn’t find ▶ An additional the waterfall I wanted to visit and — even 45.9 million though I clearly rocked my interview — I gallons of the just didn’t have a great feeling about Oconee CAT’S County.
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