Gervais Street Bridge
The first week of August is behind us, but you still have time to enjoy one last blast of summer fun. “We’re putting people in the water seven days a week, and we will be until Labor Day,” said Michael Mayo. He owns Palmetto Outdoor, the outfitter that conducts tubing trips on the Congaree River, […]
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Work on the Area 1 cofferdam on the Congaree River, near the Gervais Street Bridge, is coming along.The first stage of the cofferdam is complete. Dominion Energy is damming the river in order to clean tar from the bottom of the river. In June an Unexploded Ordnance Diving Team from Tetra Tech arrived to clear […]
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Are you looking for a unique summer day trip? West Columbia’s Riverwalk may be the perfect destination for you. It provides a wonderful and educational record of the development of the area. Riverwalk is a wooded trail that runs parallel to the ancient flowing waters of the Congaree River. Riverwalk is something of a museum […]
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The initial footprint of the cofferdam on the Congaree River has been completed. The site is near the Gervais Street Bridge where crews are preparing the area to clean up coal tar, deposited decades ago, from the bottom of the river. According to the Congaree Riverkeeper “the contractor will continue to build up the dam […]
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The effort to build two cofferdams on the Congaree River is taking shape. If you ride across the Gervais Street Bridge, you can see it. Dominion Energy has contracted a company to build the cofferdams so that coal tar from long-closed oil plant can be cleaned from the river bottom. The work site is on […]
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The process to clean up the coal tar in the Congagree River has begun. Dominion Energy has contracted a company to build two coffer dams on the Columbia side of the river. The first coffer dam will be built across from the West Columbia Riverwalk Amphitheater. Roads and a workspace are being installed now close […]
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The West Columbia Riverwalk at dawn is peaceful. From the iconic Gervais Street Bridge to the Blossom Street Bridge, the lights reflect off of the water setting a surreal atmosphere. There is the gurgling of the flowing Congaree River beside the trail. The river is the color of green in daylight, has a gray and […]
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