DI News History - July 7, 2016

TEN YEARS AGO

In the July 6, 2006 edition of the paper our top news story was that the Daniel Island Company planned to submit a conservation minded proposal to the States Port Authority to purchase the 1,300 acres of land owned by the port on Daniel Island.

Our top feature was on yoga – the classes on Daniel Island, including kids yoga and yoga at Pierce Park Pavilion, all led by island yoga teacher Diane Zalka.

Now this was news – the school board passed a budget with a small tax decrease!

FIVE YEARS AGO

In the July 7, 2011 edition of the paper we reported on the mounds of dirt often worked into large hills visible from the Don Holt Bridge, explaining that the land on the “east side of the Cooper River underneath the Don Holt Bridge is known as Clouter Creek, and is just one of several dredge disposal sites in the Charleston area. Dredging is necessary to maintain a functioning harbor with a consistent depth. In an average year, 2 million cubic yards of dredged material are removed from Charleston Harbor Federal Channel. And Clouter Creek happens to be the site where material dredged from the Upper Harbor and Shipyard River ends up.”

The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA) owns the northern half of the Clouter Creek site, and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) owns the southern portion. They work in concert to achieve what is essentially an ongoing earth-moving project. Clouter Creek is divided into four “cells,” and at any given time each cell is participating in one phase of a four-step process, one of which results in the creation of the mounds.

In other news, then Republican Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann greeted 300 plus local residents at Smythe Park on Daniel Island.