A developer wants to stretch a dock out onto the New River in Hardeeville but must win the approval of South Carolina regulators first.
American Timberlands Company has applied to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control’s coastal resources office for permission to alter a critical environmental area under the state’s Coastal Zone Management Act.
The site, described in DHEC’s public notice, is on the New River at 545 Glasgow Landing Road, lies north of land owned by the Nature Conservancy.
American Timberlands Company wants permission to build a 6-foot-by-8-foot walkway onto a 4-foot-by-28-foot ramp connected to a 8-foot-by-75-foot floating dock on the New River.
ATC, a land investment management firm based in Pawleys Island, announced last year that it had purchased 12,000 acres of “high value forestland” on behalf of its American Timberlands Fund II, LP. The land spanned three tracts located in Jasper, Edgefield and Kershaw counties.
The company said ATC was already managing 60,000 acres in South Carolina, including 20,000 acres purchased in Horry County in 2008.
ATC’s website says that its Red Bluff Plantation is located 11 miles from Savannah and includes 6,400 acres of river frontage.
It hosts “nature enthusiasts, corporate clients, organizations, and families,” along with hunting, festivals, sporting events and weddings.
The plantation also has a 7,200-square-foot “main house,” which is a reproduction of a 19th-century plantation house, along with a landing strip for a plane or helicopter.
Red Bluff Tract is listed as the owner of two pieces of property in Jasper County, according to the county assessor’s staff: One consists of 2,131 acres on Glasgow Road Landing and another in the same area stretching 4,269 acres.
