Completion of the Congaree River Clean-Up Project
Channel: City of Columbia
Date: 2023-11-13

Mayor Daniel Rickenmann joined Governor Henry McMaster and Dominion Energy South Carolina to celebrate the completion of Dominion Energy's SC's multiyear project to remove tar-like material from the Congaree River.

Since 2022, crews removed more than 35,000 tons of sediment for disposal in an approved landfill. The project also disposed of more than 2.5 tons of debris from the river including tires, scrap metal and other trash.

During the removal, hundreds of historical artifacts were discovered including cannonballs and other ordnance that have been in the river bottom since the Civil War.

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