Clemson University is a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management according to U.S. EPA.

Clemson University’s Restoration Institute was recognized today as a Center of Excellence for Watershed Management in South Carolina. This is only the third such Center of Excellence to be designated in the Southeast. Clemson signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) this morning with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) during a ceremony at the Madren Center on the university’s campus.
One of the major projects being developed by the Center is a cyber infrastructure-based digital watershed. A system of remote sensors will provide scientists, professional environmental managers and the public with real-time information about environmental characteristics – water quality, storm-water runoff, even tree growth – from any Internet access point. The cyber infrastructure is expected to be online by October.
Clemson awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Center to develop the cyber infrastructure and four demonstration projects. These projects include real-time monitoring of 215 miles of the Savannah River watershed, a low-impact development project in Georgetown County, and two small watershed projects at Lake Issaqueena in Pickens Count and along a segment of the Saluda River Watershed in Greenville County.