South Carolina · SC
Most vendors present South Carolina as a post-storm inspection state. Read SCR100000 and that inspection is recommended, not required. The mandatory piece is the rain log and the weekly report, so that is what we build for.
| Rainfall trigger | 0.50″ — significant rainfall event |
|---|---|
| Measurement window | Rolling 24 hours |
| What it requires | Rain log entry + weekly inspection report |
| Baseline inspection | Every 7 days |
| Permit | SCR100000 — SC DES CGP |
| Verification | Partial — post-storm inspection is recommended, not required |
| Status | Partial |
Defaults we ship, not legal advice. Your individual permit governs, and every threshold is editable per site.
What it means on site
A storm of 0.5 inches or more is a significant rainfall event that must be recorded in the site rain log and reported on the weekly inspection report. SWRainAlert logs it automatically, with both NOAA readings and the time it crossed, so the weekly report is assembled rather than reconstructed from memory.
The seven-day inspection is the requirement that actually binds in South Carolina. It appears here under its own routine purpose with its own form, separate from the storm record.
Sites discharging to Sensitive Waters may be required to inspect more frequently than the baseline. Your permit governs — thresholds and frequencies are editable per site, and we would rather you override us than trust a default that does not match your paperwork.
Same everywhere
Whatever your state's number is, the reading it is compared against matters just as much. We run NOAA Stage IV and NOAA MRMS independently, store both per site, alert on the higher, and flag it when they disagree. Neither is averaged into the other.
South Carolina questions
SCR100000 recommends a post-storm inspection but does not require one. What it requires is that a rainfall event of 0.5 inches or more be recorded in the site rain log and reported on the weekly inspection report.
Because we have verified the rain-log requirement against the current permit but not every element of the post-storm language, and we would rather label that than present it as settled. You still get the alert; we are careful about what we call it.
Yes. The alert fires and the event is logged. It is described as a rain-log event rather than a mandated inspection deadline.
Not a compliance guarantee. This is a monitoring and recordkeeping aid. Where your permit names an on-site rain gauge as the system of record, the gauge is the record — and the inspector's judgement outranks ours.
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