In some areas, the channel has incised over three meters into the floodplain. The Environmental Science students at Lander and members of ESSO, ACS, and LABS student organizations have begun restoring Lander Run by removing some of the non-native vegetation and trash. In addition, grants from the Greenwood Conservation District and the South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative, contributions from private individuals, and funds from Lander's student government body will fund a contractor to remove the large slabs of concrete in the creek and slope the banks so that the creek ceases to be a safety hazard. Lander Run at the intersection of Wilson Street and the parking lot of the athletic complex.
Trees grow in the stream bed.
Some of the concrete slabs that were dumped in the creek. Non-native vegetation grows in the creek bed incised into steep banks. An unkempt drainage ditch with steep banks feeds into Lander Run from the parking lot. Note the mound of concrete in the foreground. Professor Rick Fox standing in the incised stream channel with some of the trash found in the creek.