If lake and conservation groups get their wish, a federal judge will recommend the third remaining dam on Twelve Mile Creek be torn down as part of a PCB removal plan for the waterway and Hartwell Lake.

A report says drinking water from a South Carolina lake that’s part a federal case over PCB contamination cleanup has no detectable traces of the chemical.

A 65-year old Easley man is dead after he drowned in Lake Hartwell Saturday night.

Authorities found the chase suspect, who they identify as Samuel Calhoun, around 12:30 Wednesday morning clinging to an overpass pillar.

For the 33rd year in a row, DHEC said some fish in Lake Hartwell is unsafe to eat, due to toxic chemicals called PCBs, dumped in the water back in the 1970s.

The recent rainfall in the Carolinas has boaters excited on Lake Hartwell.

Officials in Anderson, who recently instituted mandatory water restrictions because of low levels at Lake Hartwell, said they need a lot of rain over an extended period to replenish the water table and the lake.

The S.C. Highway Patrol confirms no one was inside a pickup truck that was pulled out of Lake Hartwell Monday. Investigators believe the truck may have been in the water for several years.