HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – Water utility company activates drought plan as severe conditions hit Grand Strand and Pee Dee counties.<\/p>\n
The South Carolina State Climatology Office and the South Carolina Drought Response Committee have declared a severe drought condition for the Pee Dee River Basin, which includes Horry, Marion, and Dillon counties.<\/p>\n
In response, Grand Strand Water & Sewer Authority is activating its Drought Management Plan, effective July 1.<\/p>\n
Under normal conditions, excess charges apply after 8,000 gallons of water usage per month. <\/p>\n
Under the Drought Management Policy for severe conditions, excess charges will begin after 6,000 gallons of usage per month.<\/p>\n
GSWSA is asking customers to reduce or eliminate all non-essential water usage to protect the service area\u2019s water supply and fire protection capabilities.<\/p>\n
Customers who use irrigation systems should schedule watering outside the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
For information on GSWSA\u2019s Smart Irrigation Program and additional water conservation tips, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WMBF. For more free content like this, download our apps.<\/a> Have feedback that can help us improve? Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WMBF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) – Water utility company activates drought plan as severe conditions hit Grand Strand and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-734250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}