South Carolina’s successful effort to lure Scout Motors to Blythewood will cost the public about $60 million to make up for the environmental damage left by the massive economic development project.
That’s believed to be a record amount of spending by the state Department of Commerce on what’s known as mitigation, the required practice of saving land or restoring wetlands in some places to offset the losses at construction sites in other places.
But the costs to the public could rise higher, as a result of the effort to compensate for wetlands and streams smothered by the work at Scout…