Horry Soil Water Conservation

Horry Soil Water Conservation, a U.S. local government entity (Horry County, South Carolina), operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal environmental grants focused on habitat restoration, forest management, and water-quality improvement in South Carolina's coastal Low Country. The organization holds no prime contracts or contract vehicles; all federal activity flows through sub-grant awards from state and nonprofit prime grantees.

Horry Soil Water Conservation's recent federal footprint comprises three sub-grant awards totaling $441 thousand, all awarded between January 2025 and March 2026. Two awards derive from Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 through the South Carolina Department of Environmental Services as prime grantee, focused on water-quality improvement in Horry County's Phase II Project Area. The first (Jan 16, 2025) and second (Jan 28, 2025) awards support cost-share assistance to landowners for septic system repairs and best management practices installation to reduce E. Coli pollution across multiple watersheds including the Waccamaw River, Great Pee Dee, and Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway corridors. A third award (Mar 26, 2026) routes through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, with work focused on longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood forest habitat restoration across 500 acres of planting, prescribed burns on 2,000 acres, and invasive species removal on 300 acres to benefit northern bobwhites, black bears, and Venus flytraps. This award was funded through the Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service.

Horry Soil Water Conservation operates as a subrecipient within multi-agency partnerships that include local water authorities, county stormwater departments, municipal governments, and regional watershed districts. The organization's capability scope is narrowly focused on ecosystem management, conservation technical assistance, and water-quality improvement delivery at the county and watershed level, without exposure to federal contracting vehicles, prime contract work, or multi-state or national scope. Customer concentration is split between EPA Region 4 and NRCS, with no indication of pipeline beyond these two agencies.