JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) — The small community of Ferguson Village is starting to see ditch renewal after years of neglected and overgrown ditches, causing flooding concerns.
One of the biggest issues throughout the Ferguson Village neighborhood has been neglected and overgrown ditches, which have resulted in poor stormwater drainage for generations. The City of Charleston has been working to clean up these ditches and has also been working with partners at The Charleston Museum on the Dill Tract to ensure that the water has somewhere to go when it rains.
“It’s an older neighborhood, and it was built before the modern approach to design stormwater infrastructure and easements being put onto ditches,” Matt Fountain, the director of stormwater management with the City of Charleston, said. “Easements are this legal tool that gives the city or the government certain abilities to work or control property.”…