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February 17, 2012
S.C. Drought Committee to meet in Columbia on March 8
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources will convene the South Carolina Drought Response Committee on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held at the S.C. Forestry Commission's Large Conference Room (parking located in the back), 5500 Broad River Road in Columbia.
The purpose of the March meeting is to review the longer-term drought impacts that have resulted due to the overall dry winter pattern and to evaluate the status of conditions leading into Spring and Summer when demand and evaporation increase. Get more information on drought at the South Carolina State Climatology Office.
Contact South Carolina State Climatologist Hope Mizzell in Columbia at (803) 530-5793 or e-mail at mizzellh@dnr.sc.gov for more information.
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