Planning without the planners: South Carolina's Section 319 local watershed planning process

The results reveal a substantial absence, for the most part, of professional impetus for the planners' involvement in the local watershed planning process, which explains some of the outcome ambiguity noted in the existing collaborative process literature. It also identifies the impediments to planners' watershed planning participation in South Carolina, as compared to the broader set of states, and notes both the willingness and potential avenues for new planner participation in an integral nonpoint source control planning process.