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By Dave Hargett, Ph.D.
Lake Conestee is a former mill-pond located on the Reedy River, six miles south
of Greenville, South Carolina, in the center of the urban Greenville area. This
water body, impounded by a historic stone masonry dam was formerly 130 acres in
area. Today, the lake is nearly completely filled with sediment from a highly
urbanized, 62-square-mile watershed with nearly 200 years of industrial
history.
Historical and ongoing upstream sources of contaminants included extensive
textile operations, coal gasification plants, metal works, tanneries,
agrichemical formulation sites, and a WWII military base. In addition, the
local municipality’s primary wastewater treatment plant, with a nearly 80-year history, is located
two miles upstream. This Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) presently has a
discharge capacity of 29 million gallons daily. The site is, by virtue of its location, the primary stormwater treatment and
detention facility for the highly developed watershed upstream.
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