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Anderson County housing development plans to pave over potential slave gravesite. Neighbors object.
PENDLETON — A 175-acre tract of land along S.C. Highway 187 is one of many in the area that developers are pursuing for housing development, but locals claim this former plantation site shouldn’t be touched until the Anderson County Planning Commission follows the law. A lawsuit filed in...
Customers without power in the Upstate from storm damage
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. — Duke Energy reported nearly 1,600 power outages across the Upstate of South Carolina Sunday morning. Most of these outages are in the Allendale area of Anderson County and the City of Spartanburg. We heard reports of damage in Anderson after storms swept through the Upstate...
Body recovered of missing kayaker in Lake Hartwell, DNR confirms
STARR, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources announced the body of the missing kayaker had been recovered in Lake Hartwell. According to the Anderson County Coroner's Office, two men were out kayaking on the lake near Singing Pines Recreation in Iva, South Carolina, when they got caught in a storm.
Groundbreaking Ceremony Scheduled for Pendleton/Clemson Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion
The City of Clemson, Town of Pendleton, and Anderson County will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the Pendleton/Clemson Wastewater Treatment Plant (PCWWTP) at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, August 30, 2024, on Woodburn Road near Eighteen Mile Creek. The plant, owned by Pendleton and managed through a three-way agreement with Clemson and Anderson County, will undergo a $60,994,197 expansion. Clemson will contribute $16,701,405, Pendleton $11,686,976, and Anderson County $21,705,816. Currently operating under a “Flow Advancement Agreement” allowing flows up to 3.0 MGD, the expansion will upgrade the plant from an extended aeration process to an A²O Process, increasing its capacity to at least 5.0 MGD. The project is expected to be completed by July 2026.
Outages reported across Upstate, many trees down
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Duke Energy reported nearly a thousand customers without power across multiple counties in the Upstate following a storm on Saturday. According to an outage map, Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson Counties were all impacted. Additionally, the Anderson Co. Fire Department has reported many trees have been...
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