The Broad River at Lockhart: Not a good sight
Recently, on one of my rambling road trips across the Upstate, I decided to take a bit of a break in the town of Lockhart.For those of you who don't know where Lockhart is, it's a small old textile mill town on the west bank of the Broad River, where SC Routes 9 and 49 cross from Union to Chester County. While the mill was closed many years ago, and eventually demolished, a canal which was constructed to divert water from the river to provide electricity for the plant, town and several thousand nearby residential, commercial and industrial customers. In fact, the two or three blocks closest to the canal sit behind a levee, while much of the rest of the town scales the side of the hill.
One way of coming into the town is to turn off SC 9 west of town at the turnoff to the Lockhart school complex, and a road makes a half-circle, descending into the town, and by a fishing area and the diversion dam.I decided to get out and walk up the trail to the other side of the diversion dam, and the sight of trash that was floating in front of the dam was stunning. A lot of it was green soft drink bottles.
This is where trash goes if it's not properly disposed of, so keep this in mind and do your part to keep our state clean.
I'll bet if they scoop through it, they might just find Jimmy Hoffa's body.