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Santee Cooper announced it ended a controlled spill at Santee Dam at noon Monday. The statewide hydroelectric company announced on Aug. 9 the need for a controlled spill after heightened rainfall ...
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCBD) – Santee Cooper plans to resume controlled spill at the Santee Dam on Friday due to increased rainfall in the Santee Cooper Lake system. Officials say the flow will ...
Santee Cooper started a controlled spilling operation on Thursday at the Santee Dam on Lake Marion. The flow began at 6 a.m. at a rate of 25,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Santee ...
Santee Cooper will start a controlled spilling operation at the Santee Dam following the recent increase in rainfall. Santee Cooper officials say the influx of rainfall in the Santee Cooper ...
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (WCBD) – Santee Cooper is planning to test dam sirens in part of the utility’s emergency action plan in late August. Santee Cooper will be testing sirens located at the ...
at the Santee Dam on Lake Marion. The flow will begin at noon at a rate of 5,000 cubic feet of water per second into the Santee River and will continue until further notice. Santee Cooper’s dams ...
Santee Cooper officials say they are conducting a controlled spilling operation at the Santee Dam on Lake Marion to manage lake levels. That means they are allowing more water to be released from the ...
Santee Cooper will conduct a test of its 15 warning sirens for the Santee Dam floodplain in Berkeley, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties on Monday, June 10, beginning at 10 a.m. As part of the ...
MONCKS CORNER — Santee Cooper will conduct semiannual testing of its 15 Santee Dam warning sirens in Berkeley, Clarendon and Williamsburg counties on Monday. The state-owned utility’s ...
Santee Cooper says it is releasing water from the Santee Dam on Lake Marion following heavy rainfall in the other parts of the state. As a result, the water has traveled through the river system and ...
The Padre Dam district serves more than 100,000 residents from Santee to Alpine and operates the Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve. Andy Menshek, a San Miguel Fire Protection District firefighter ...