Cayce City Council voted to accept a $10 million South Carolina Infrastructure Investment Plan grant from the Rural Infrastructure Authority, at its council meeting, Tuesday.

City of Cayce Mayor Elise Partin, council and city staff have been proactive in addressing decades- old stormwater issues and are pleased with the funding. It will serve as another step in completing the Cayce Avenues Drainage Project, according to a press release from City of Cayce Public Information Officer Ashley Hunter.

Also, Axtell Drive is officially reopened and the construction work on the Drainage Project is complete, it was announced Tuesday. Axtell Drive had been closed for weeks.

The multi-year storm drainage improvement project began with a Comprehensive Study of the
existing storm drainage conveyance system across 530 acres. The City of Cayce is currently
completing the first multi-phase round of improvements that addressed a number of needs
identified in the study. Securing this grant from the RIA allows the City of Cayce to make more of
the recommended drainage improvements.

Cayce City Manager, Tracy Hegler, stated, “This funding allows us to address some of the
flooding problems that our citizens have been experiencing as a result of standard development
in the ‘40’s and ‘50’s that didn’t take into account storm drainage design. We have said from
the beginning, that while this issue was not caused by the city, we would help coordinate a
solution. We are keeping our promise to our Cayce citizens; and doing so without burdening
our general fund or raising taxes.”

The project funding was selected as part of a competitive grant program based on priority needs,
transformational impact, feasibility, readiness to proceed, leveraging and geographic diversity.
The RIA says that the grant funding “offers a unique opportunity to make long-term capital
improvements that will strengthen critical services to residents and businesses, create more
resilient communities and build the capacity to support future opportunities.” Below are City of Cayce photos.