PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Bargib Enterprises, located on S-33 (Clements Ferry Road) at the intersection with Beresford Run, is an existing 22.5-acre industrial site with several different operations including trucking operations, recreational vehicle sales & repairs, a concrete plant, etc.  Multiple plans and permitting packages have been developed for the client or their lessee.

PROJECT 1 (AUGUST 2018)

The client was negotiating with another company to subdivide, redevelop, and permit the front 7 acres with the remainder for their operations. This required shifting the existing operations to utilize the rest of the property.

Prior to J. Bragg Consulting’s involvement, the client performed work on the property such as cleaning the former paintball course and placing crusher run, along with clearing an existing berm and increasing its height to create a taller barrier between their operations and Beresford Run, a City of Charleston owned-road with an entrance to a subdivision, without proper permits. The work performed resulted in a Notice of Violations being issued by Berkeley County. 

In order to bring the site into compliance with Berkeley County’s Stormwater and Zoning Ordinances, J. Bragg Consulting prepared site plans for the two areas of violations and the stormwater report with SC DHEC Notice of Intent for Land Disturbance Activities. This also included coordination with Red Bay Environmental to obtain a new wetland Jurisdictional Determination (JD) from the USACE as the previous JD had expired.  The plans documented the location of new earthen berms and other improvements and re-established a grassed wetland buffer. To improve the stormwater quality for another area, a shallow grassed swale with grassed level spreader was installed to also recreate sheet-flow into the wetlands.  

In addition, J. Bragg Consulting provided documentation to meet current zoning requirements. Although the site is zoned heavy industrial, the back section’s permitted use was for recreation (i.e. former paintball course) and the client needed to change the permitted use to transportation for the trucking operation. This necessitated meeting the County’s buffer yard/landscaping requirements for transportation; therefore, these items were also incorporated into the site plans.

PROJECT 2 (MAY 2019)

The client performed “routine maintenance” items after the front 7-acres were not redeveloped; however, this required revisions to the plans and stormwater permit prepared for Project 1.  The revisions included:

• Phases 2 & 3 – Redevelopment phases were shown on Project 1, but since this did not occur, these two phases were removed from the plans.
• Asphalt Travel-way – Approximately 600 LF, 36-ft wide, asphalt path was placed from the existing asphalt parking area to near the connector between the front and back sections.  This travel way is the main path and required continual maintenance to eliminate potholes.
• Shallow Swale – A shallow swale was constructed in front of the berm near the single-wide trailer as this area was holding water and not draining.  This swale connects to an existing ditch.
• Ditch Maintenance – The existing ditch behind the berm, single-wide trailer, and cell tower was overgrown.  In accordance with the County’s maintenance standards, this ditch was cleaned, re-graded with improved side slopes, and hydroseeded.  This ditch also serves as an outfall for Beresford Run drainage and the overflow for the remaining area which was part of a former borrow pit.
• Additional Landscape Buffer – Approximately 600 LF, adjacent to Beresford Run, in the back section was under-brushed with approved equipment and methods within the wetland boundaries.  The root balls & root systems of the existing plants remain; natural re-growth is occurring.  Although there are no wetland impacts, there were impacts to the County’s bufferyard requirements, and the plans re-establish the 50-ft bufferyard adjacent to Beresford Run.
• As-built Information – The “existing conditions” survey was updated to reflect the as-built survey as the new “existing conditions.”

J. Bragg Consulting prepared revised plans to reflect the changes and prepared a Stormwater Report Letter Addendum to document changes for the removal/additions of impervious areas within the drainage areas.

PROJECT 3 (DECEMBER 2019)

Bargib Enterprises leased approximately 2-acres to Capital Concrete for the installation of a concrete batch plant within an area permitted for Transportation as part of Project 1.  This project involved minimal site improvements since the plant would be located within the gravel parking area.  The project involved developing the civil/site plans to include the concrete batch plant facilities, parking and travel areas, storage areas, etc.  It also required increasing the bufferyard area to comply with Heavy Industrial zoning instead of the Transportation permitted-use.

J. Bragg Consulting prepared the plans, MS4/stormwater permit package and coordinated its approval, coordinated with SCDOT for their use of the existing driveway onto S-33 (Clements Ferry Road), etc.  J. Bragg Consulting also addressed questions during construction, assisted in the as-built documentation, and submitted the SC DHEC NOT.

PROJECT 4 (DECEMBER 2021)

Bargib Enterprises leased approximately 1-acre to ReFuel for the installation of a gas station/convenience store in the northwest corner at the S-33 (Clements Ferry Road)/Beresford Run intersection. This required Bargib Enterprises to relocate the existing trucking operation offices to another location on-site.  Plans and MS4/Stormwater permit packages were developed and submitted to Berkeley County and SC DHEC.

During the County’s review of these plans and the plans prepared by others for ReFuel, there were differences such as ReFuel had incorporated a new road to Beresford Run which impacted a building Bargib Enterprises was retaining.  As such, a meeting was requested for all parties, and in this meeting, the County stated their intentions of desiring cross-easement access from Beresford Run through this property to the adjacent development. Also ReFuel, based on zoning, was prohibited from this site.  

This project has not been implemented as ReFuel was unsuccessful in their attempt to get a planned development agreement approved to allow them to locate on this site.