In addition to the development, implementation, and maintenance of the Statewide Resilience Plan, the Disaster Relief and Resilience Act (SC Code §48-62-10) charged SCOR with providing technical planning assistance for state and local governmental entities. The Act specifies that the plan should include a strategy for providing resources, technical assistance, and other support to local governments for flood risk reduction efforts.

Resilience planning on the watershed scale will enable the development, implementation, and coordination of resilience projects, programs, and policies at the local level. The watershed planning process will also provide opportunities for stakeholder input from citizens around the state. Through this process, data and information gaps that affect the capacity of state agencies or local governments to adequately evaluate and address the factors that increase flood risk may be identified and recommendations for strategies to reduce flood risk will be developed.

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