Chatham County Stormwater

03/05/2026

🌳Chatham County Native Plant Sale & Tree Giveaway🌳
📅Saturday, March 21st
⌚10 AM - 2 PM
📍Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens: 2 Canebrake Rd, Savannah, GA 31419

🌳Get up to 2 free trees per household!

⭐Trees provided by: Savannah Tree Foundation

In partnership with: Savannah Tree Foundation, University of Georgia Extension, Chatham County, and the City of Savannah

Vendors: Flourabundance (native wildflowers and perennials), All the Buzz, Victory Gardens, Naturescapes of Beaufort, Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens

01/27/2026

Give your clutter a second life! Bring your hard‑to‑recycle items to our community drop‑off event and help keep waste out of our landfills.

04/22/2025

DYK? Today is Earth Day! You can help celebrate by...
🟢Picking up litter
🟢Planting native vegetation
🟢Installing rain barrels
🟢Avoid dumping in storm drains

Learn more at: https://engineering.chathamcountyga.gov/StormWater/About

03/22/2025

Great day to buy a few new green friends from Victory Gardens. NATURESCAPES, and Florabundance. Revival Coffe is here serving up warm and cold coffees!
Come shop and sip at the Chatham County Native Plant sale today till 1pm at the University of Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens !

03/14/2025

Come visit Chatham County Stormwater and Floodplain staff at the UGA Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens next Saturday!

Reduce water and fertilizer need by planting coastal native plants!

Also, you can enter to win a rain barrel donated by the City of Savannah!!

Thanks Naturescapes, Florabundance, and Victory Gardens for bringing beautiful plants to over location!

08/28/2024

🐦Congratulations to Eli from Tybee Island Maritime Academy! Eli won our recycled materials birdhouse competition! Thank you to everyone who participated and made environmental awareness more fun. We hope you all will join us for more fun learning and involvement opportunities coming soon!

08/15/2024

⚠️ Public Safety Alert: Unincorporated Chatham County

The Ogeechee River and rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby have caused flooding in parts of Unincorporated Chatham County. Floodwaters pose serious health and safety risks.

Stay out of floodwaters. These waters may contain dangerous pathogens, chemicals, petroleum products, oils, lubricants, and raw sewage. Contact with floodwater can lead to illness and infections.

Floodwaters are also unpredictable and can hide hazards such as debris, downed power lines, and weakened roads. Entering floodwaters can lead to drowning.

For your safety, please avoid flooded areas. If you must travel, take an alternate route.

Stay informed. Monitor local news for updates on road closures and flood conditions.

Report any hazards or emergencies to 911.

Check for road closures here: https://chathamcountyga.gov/OurCounty/newsArticle/683fefad-96b1-400f-a02e-be1416cc353f

07/24/2024

Join our competition! Kid-friendly and going until August 15th!
More info below 🐥

07/18/2024

👀 Check out the latest issue of our quarterly Newsletter! We have environmental tips and resources along with a fun competition for all ages! Who will win? 🐥

07/12/2024

We need your input! Attend the Floodplain Management Plan Public Meeting virtually or in-person on Tuesday, July 16th at 5:30 PM!

Chatham County has updated the Floodplain Management Plan, and we need your feedback!
Attend our final public meeting to review the draft plan and help the planning committee finalize the mitigation action plan.

⌚ 5:30pm on July 16th
📍 In person at 124 Bull St., Savannah, GA 31401 (second floor, Commission Chambers)
OR
💻 Virtually, click to sign up: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VUIjPQ_iBUKIpZZYpAKZm1qmQbpWjVdHk23iaB2i7h1UM1g5MFY2VkFMUDlLWEo3UU5YWFhRUVFXMi4u

More details:

The Floodplain Management Plan:
•evaluates the County’s flood hazards and vulnerability
•assesses local capabilities to implement flood mitigation projects
•identifies a wide range of mitigation actions that the County can pursue to reduce flood risk and protect the people and property of Chatham County

The plan also supports the County’s Community Rating System participation, which provides flood insurance policyholders in Chatham County with a discount on their insurance premiums.

07/10/2024

If you're wanting to learn more about stormwater, then listen to this episode of The Chat (Chatham County's podcast)! We discuss how the County manages stormwater, and what you can do to help keep our stormwater/waterways clean!