I fear the road I'm having to go down. Today I had somebody come out to my property to give me a price on putting in a siphon system, but they pointed me into the direction of a Soil & Water person. The Soil & Water person then pointed me in the direction of a SC DHEC (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control) Engineer to get aproval for what I am wanting to do.
Why do I feel like that when I call SC DHEC it's like asking them to put handcuffs on me by them telling me what I can't do with my own pond?
The pond use to be 20+ acres, but now it's in the 7 acre range. I was told it was lowered from the overflow pipe rusting through years ago and falling into the pond. I simply want to raise the water level up 7 feet, which would cause the pond be around 10 to 12 acres. A far cry from how big it use to be, but I fear 10 to 12 acres may be bigger then what SC DHEC wants the pond to be.
