Reedy River Water Quality Group participants are working on many programs to keep water clean.
Water Quality Monitoring
The Reedy River Water Quality Group coordinates long-term water quality monitoring throughout the Reedy River watershed. This monitoring helps track conditions over time, identify potential water quality concerns, and evaluate progress toward protecting and improving the river. Monitoring results also support watershed planning, regulatory coordination, and future restoration efforts in the Reedy River and downstream waters. For monitoring data, please visit our Water Monitoring page
Riparian Buffers
The Reedy River Water Quality Group supported an economic impact analysis to better understand the potential costs and benefits of proposed riparian buffer protections. Riparian buffers help protect water quality by filtering stormwater runoff, reducing erosion, stabilizing streambanks, and providing natural habitat along waterways. The analysis helps inform local decision-making by evaluating how buffer requirements may affect property owners, development, infrastructure, and long-term watershed protection. Check out our fact sheet here: Riparian Buffer Zoning
Section 319 Grants for Clean Water
Section 319 grants provide funding to help reduce nonpoint source pollution, such as bacteria, nutrients, sediment, and stormwater runoff. These grants can support projects like septic system repair, stream restoration, agricultural best management practices, and public education. In the Reedy River watershed, 319 grants have helped local partners implement water quality improvements in priority areas that drain to the Reedy River. Check out our grants at this link: 319 Grants.
Stream Bank Stabilization
Due to eroding stream banks that included a recently exposed ReWa sanitary sewer line, Greenville County conducted a stream stabilization demonstration project on Brushy Creek. The erosion was located just upstream of a real-time County water quality monitoring station, providing a means to quantify potential reductions in sediment and nutrients due to various forms of erosion control technologies. Partially located within municipal limits of the City of Greenville, the City and ReWa provided staff support and co-funded the construction costs with the County. Check out a short video of the Brushy Creek Restoration Project here: Brushy Creek on YouTube
