Our offices will be closed Monday, May 26, 2025, in observance of Memorial Day. During the holiday week, garbage and trash collection will occur one day later than your regular collection day. If you have a Wastewater emergency, please call 843.795.2345.
Commission Meetings
Upcoming Meetings:
Monday, May 19, 2025 – Wastewater | Regular
Monday, June 23, 2025 – Regular
Commission meetings are open to the public. Citizens may continue to submit written public comments via email to jipsdinfo@jipsd.org or by mail to JIPSD Commission, PO Box 12140, Charleston, SC 29422-2140. Comments will be distributed to the Commission.
In keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing assistance should contact the James Island Public Service District office at 843-795-9060, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday, prior to the meeting.
Wastewater Projects
Notice of Public Hearing | FY26 Budget
Pursuant to Section 6-1-80 of the S.C. Code of Laws, public notice is hereby given that the James Island Public Service District Commission will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at the James Island Fire Station 1, 1108 Folly Road, James Island, SC on the (1) James Island Public Service District’s operating budget resolution for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, and the (2) Wastewater Collection System Use and Rate Resolution.
Public comments, written and oral, are invited.
For governmental operations, the proposed budget includes:
Current Projected
Fiscal Year 2025 Fiscal Year 2026 Percent Change
Operating Revenues* $12,269,865 $12,810,771 4.4%
Operating Expenditures* $12,500,679 $13,190,860 5.5%
General Fund mills 61.7 61.7 0%
Debt Service Fund mills 5.3 5.3 0%
*includes debt service fund revenues and expenses
For proprietary operations, the proposed budget includes:
Current Projected
Fiscal Year 2025 Fiscal Year 2026 Percent Change
Operating Revenues $18,512,134 $23,153,334 25.1%
Operating Expenses $26,694,860 $22,672,731 -15.1%
The FY26 Budget Resolution and supporting schedules are available for review at the District’s Administration office or by viewing the District’s web site at www.jipsd.org/services-departments/finances/
Notice of Public Hearing | PS 33 Force Main Upgrade
JIPSD Phase 1 PS-33 Force Main Capacity Upgrade/Bypass Project
A Public Hearing to describe this proposed project and accept public comments will be held during the regular James Island Public Service District (JIPSD) Commission meeting at 6:30 PM on Monday, April 28, 2025. The meeting will be held at James Island Fire Station 1, located at 1108 Folly Road Charleston, SC 29412.
Increasing peak period wastewater discharge from JIPSD Regional Pump Station-33 into the over four decades old receiving trunk sewers has increased the probability of periodic surcharging and raw sewage overflows due to the lack of adequate peak flow rate transmission capacity. The service area of PS-33 and the existing downstream trunk sewers currently accommodate wastewater from approximately 45% of the JIPSD service area including Sol Legare Island and the City of Folly Beach. This large area, located primarily south of Ft Johnson Road and Riverland Drive is experiencing continuous residential development, redevelopment, and densification as population growth continues unrelentingly within this only remaining low density, partially undeveloped portion of James Island. The future of expanded public sewer service on Folly Island, currently served predominately by aging on-site septic tank and tile field systems, is also anticipated to occur within the next decade due to increasing non-point bacterial contamination from storm water runoff into adjacent tidal waters and marshes,
The previously cast-in-place-pipe (CIPP) lined 21″ VCP and 24″ DIP trunk sewers located on Ft. Johnson Road and Dills Bluff Road downstream of PS-33 ultimately discharge into the JIPSD Regional PS-11 on Dills Bluff Road. These fragile vitrified clay pipe (VCP) trunk sewers have reached their functional hydraulic capacity and, arguably, their design life cycle. The previous CIPP lining also reduced their functional full flow capacity by approximately 22% by reducing their cross-sectional area.
This proposed project will include the construction of approximately 7,343 ft, of 18″ nominal Dis. (15.74″ ID) HDPE force main installed in three separate HDD installations, approximately 50 ft. of C905 PVC installed by open-cut trenching, a junction connection with the 16″ PS-33 Force main at the Ft. Johnson Rd/Secessionville Road intersection, a new force main discharge connection into the PS-11 receiving manhole, an emergency flow diversion cross-connection with the PS-16 existing 12″ force main, 4 air release valve assemblies, associated roadway crossing repairs, and the acquisition of both temporary and permanent force main easements adjacent to and abutting SCDOR rights-of-way of Ft. Johnson and Dills Bluff Roads. The estimated total cost of this proposed project is $7.87 million.