Winyah Rivers Alliance and our volunteers have been long-time supporters of CoCoRaHS. Now we’re joining with SC DNR to call on additional volunteers who want to help South Carolina win by watching the weather. The South Carolina State Climatology Office, housed within the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and partnering with the National Weather Service, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 28, 2023 Contacts: Richard Treme (Town of Kingstree) – (803) 206-8211 Kelvin Washington (Williamsburg County) – (843) 355-9321, ext. 5101 Beth Goodale (Georgetown County) – (843) 545-3550 Debra Buffkin (Winyah Rivers Alliance) – (843) 340-0163 Michelle Sinkler (Open Space Institute) – (843) 412-8583 $4.6 Million in Federal Funding Approved for […]
The winning photographs from Winyah Rivers Alliance’s Photography Contest celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act are going traveling! They will be on display in December and January at: Waccamaw Library Auditorium 41 St Paul’s Place Pawleys Island, SC 29585 We are grateful for… …Waccamaw Library and Friends of the Waccamaw Library for […]
Winners of our 5250 Photography Contest have been announced! Congratulations to the winning photographers and to all the photographers who entered our contest in support of fishable, swimmable, drinkable water! Thank you to our sponsors, The Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation and 803 Labs, Inc., for their support! Winning photographs are below…click on a photograph to […]
To ensure that everyone gets the opportunity to submit their amazing photos of our fishable, swimmable and drinkable waters of the greater Winyah Bay watershed, we’ve extended our deadline for entering our Photo Contest! The deadline is now extended through Friday, October 14th at 11:59 pm! Read the rules here: https://winyahrivers.org/celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-clean-water-act/#5250PhotoContest To enter, go to https://client.smarterentry.com/WinyahRivers […]
Winyah Rivers Alliance, in partnership with the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is excited to launch a Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program on the Lumber River in North Carolina. Winyah Rivers Alliance’s Lumber Riverkeeper, Jefferson Currie II, has identified multiple volunteer monitoring sites along the Lumber River from its headwaters at Drowning Creek downstream to […]
We are working together for good! Palmetto Giving Day is a 36 hour online event to support local nonprofits. Your Clean Water Team at Winyah Rivers Alliance invites you to join us online May 3-4. Together we can protect our local rivers for drinking, fishing & swimming!
Winyah Rivers Alliance, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Pembroke, will initiate and sustain a Citizen Supported Water Quality Monitoring Program in the Lumber River Watershed. The program will engage community volunteers to characterize water quality conditions seasonally and at multiple locations, provide high quality data to inform future environmental stewardship efforts, and […]
On February 9th, 2022, on behalf of Winyah Rivers Alliance, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) sent a notice of intent to sue to Active Energy Renewable Power (AERP) for violations of the Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act based on the company’s pollution of the Lumber River with PFAS from […]
Winyah Rivers Alliance is seeking a full-time Executive Director to lead our nonprofit environmental organization into its next 21 years of protecting clean water and healthy habitats in our local river watersheds. Interested in joining our clean water team? Learn more here>>
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