Drone inspection and compliance documentation in Columbia, SC

Columbia and the surrounding Midlands are one of South Carolina's most active construction markets. Commercial and mixed-use development along the Broad River corridor and around the USC campus, residential subdivision expansion in Lexington County, and infrastructure work tied to the Fort Jackson and Moncrief Road areas all generate NPDES-permitted work that requires regular BMP inspection documentation.

SC Drone Services provides aerial BMP inspections, NPDES compliance documentation, and construction monitoring for active sites in Richland and Lexington counties. We deliver GPS-tagged photo sets organized by BMP type, written condition summaries, and compliance PDFs formatted for SWPPP logs.

Any construction activity disturbing one acre or more requires coverage under the SCDHEC Construction General Permit. The permit sets a minimum inspection schedule of every seven calendar days during active land disturbance and within 24 hours of a 0.5-inch rainfall event. Both clocks run independently. Inspections are required through final stabilization at 70% permanent vegetative cover.

SCDHEC inspects construction sites in the Columbia area and checks that the inspection record is current and complete. A site where the BMPs are intact but the record is incomplete is still in violation.

Environmental consultants managing multiple active permitted sites in the Columbia area can use aerial documentation to cover more sites on a weekly schedule without additional driving time. We work as a drone documentation subcontractor: you remain the qualified inspector of record and sign the inspection record. We provide the aerial documentation in the format your SWPPP log requires.