Executive Orders
Read: Public Comments to Initial Task Force Report Findings Summary (PDF)
South Carolina faces an environmental challenge of the utmost urgency. Frequent flooding from rains, storms, hurricanes and tides threatens our people, our property and our way of life. To identify a comprehensive solution, and better facilitate a coordinated and collaborative mitigation effort, Governor McMaster has by Executive Order (PDF) established the South Carolina Floodwater Commission.
The Commission will work to provide solution-based discussions and to identify and implement short-term and long-term recommendations to alleviate and mitigate flood impacts to this State, with emphasis on the coastal and river-based communities.
This state has a wealth of talent waiting to be unleashed. If we can harness the vision, innovation and brainpower of the broader South Carolina community, we can be at the vanguard of a new water-use paradigm. Desalinization initiatives, energy utilization, tourism opportunities – these are just some of the ways we can use water rather wage war against it.
Members:
Thomas S. Mullikin, Chairman
William G. Ambrose Jr.
Mayor Brendon Barber
Maj. Michael Borneo
Bill Bruno
Dr. M. Hanif Chaudhry
Col. Bill Connor
Rep. Heather Crawford
Congressman Joe Cunningham
Sen. Tom Davis
Bryan Derreberry
Dr. Nicole Elko
Joe Ellers
Jay Faison
S.C. Department of Insurance Director Ray Farmer
Dr. Paul Gayes
Dr. Erfan Goharian
Sen. Stephen Goldfinch
SCDOT Secretary Christy Hall
Glenn Hamm
Sel Hemingway
Bryan Hilferty
D. Thomas Johnson
Keller Kissam
Mark Lazarus
S.C. Adjutant General Robert Livingston
John McCann
Marguerite McClam
SCPRT Director Duane Parrish
Dr. Leonard Pietrafesa
A. Victor Rawl
Congressman Tom Rice
Sharon Richardson
Karen Riordan
J.R. Sanderson
Dr. Inthuorn Sasanakul
Col. W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
D. Paul Sommerville
Rep. Leonard Stavrinakis
Kim Stenson
SCDC Director Bryan P. Stirling
Deborah Jane Stirling
SCDNR Director Alvin A. Taylor
Mayor John Tecklenburg
Col. Bill Truax
Dr. Richard Viso
Col. Steve Vitali
Elizabeth Von Kolnitz
Babs Warner
S.C. Commissioner of Agriculture Hugh Weathers
David Wielicki
Alan Williams
Sen. Kent Williams
David Wilson
Robert Young
Rep. Richie Yow
Documents:
S.C. Floodwater Commission Organizational Chart (PDF)