Port of Charleston preserves buffer around Wando terminal
The South Carolina State Ports Authority said it is protecting and preserving about 100 acres of buffer at the Wando Welch Terminal adjacent to Hobcaw Creek.
The Ports Authority is granting a conservation easement to the Mount Pleasant Open Space Foundation for property just south of the terminal, which is also protected under the 1979 settlement agreement that allowed the terminal to be built.
Under the easement, the property must be maintained as a natural vegetative buffer and no structures of any kind are permitted.