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October 9, 2015

Flood eats away at South Carolina's already shoddy infrastructure

  • South Carolina depends almost entirely on its gas tax to fund highway maintenance, and it hasn't raised its gas tax since 1987.
    • By JEFFREY COLLINS and DAVID A. LIEB
    Associated Press

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — Long before the historic floods of the past week, crumbling roads, bridges and dams and aging drinking water systems plagued South Carolina — a poor state that didn't spend much on them in the first place and has been loath to raise taxes for upkeep.

    Now the state faces hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars' worth of additional bills to fix or replace key pieces of its devastated infrastructure.


     
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