Month: July 2018

Kiawah Partners, together with the real estate development firm Big Rock Partners, proposes to build a modern senior living rental community with 200 apartments near the Freshfields Village shopping center on the Seabrook Island side of the circle.  The community will be within the municipal limits of the Town of Kiawah Island.

Big Rock Partners is a national leader in developing Class A senior housing rental communities. The community will be managed by Life Care Services, an Iowa-based company which provides professional third-party management to senior living communities nationwide. The community will be comprised of 128 independent apartments with several floor plan options, 40 assisted living apartments, and 32 memory care suites, all with access to a full array of modern amenities and technology.

At 3:00 pm on Tuesday August 7, 2018 representatives of Big Rock Partners and the development team will be at the Seabrook Island Club (NOT Lake House as previously reported) to provide detail on the project and answer questions from Seabrook Island residents.  All interested residents are encouraged to attend.

-Submitted by Mayor Ron Ciancio

The Town of Seabrook Island reports that Charleston County Mosquito Control has scheduled a spray truck for Seabrook Island.

The treatment will take place TONIGHT, July 30 between the hours of 11:00 pm and 7:00 am (weather permitting).

–Tidelines Editors

When we turn on the tap to have a drink of water or open the drain to empty the bathtub, where does that water come from and where does it go? To begin with, we on Seabrook Island are very fortunate that some farsighted community members decided in the 1990s that they no longer wanted to have their water supply controlled by a private company or to fight their frequent rate increases, but instead wanted to have Seabrook Island’s water supply under local control. After a long, difficult struggle, the Town of Seabrook Island purchased the utility company and took over. Many Seabrookers purchased bonds to help finance the purchase. In 1995, the Town of Seabrook Island created by ordinance the Seabrook Island Utility Commission. The Utility Commission is responsible for overseeing all of the drinking water distribution and also wastewater treatment on Seabrook Island.

All of our water is treated by the Charleston Water System, is pumped onward to St Johns Island Water Company, who in turn sends the water on to Seabrook Island. It is held in three 500,000 gallon storage tanks, two at the treatment plant and the other in the elevated tank near the fire station. That tank provides the water pressure needed for our island. That’s the clean stuff that comes into our homes. Continue reading “Water, Water Everywhere”