The primary mission of the University of South Carolina is the education of the state’s citizens through teaching, research, creative activity, and community engagement. The Ferry group honors this commitment in several ways. One very important way for us to serve the USC mission is to engage in public discourse about environmental and molecular chemistry issues. We have participated in studies, town meetings, and other educational events hosted by citizens’ groups and governmental agencies.
In the spring of 2018 faculty in the Department of Chemistry and in the Department of Environmental Health Science were asked to participate in a study of dissolved metals in the source water for the City of Denmark, South Carolina. The resulting Denmark Well Study is one part of the conversation about water quality and safety affecting Denmark and neighboring communities.