This year the Grand Strand Chapter embarked upon a new ad campaign throughout the area. “Help Sea Better” is the anti-litter message in the campaign, designed and coordinated by Leslie Van Auken, super-volunteer and senior art director at LHWH Advertising in Myrtle Beach. Leslie designed the new web site backgrounds, billboards, Durotrans signs at the [...]

Surfrider Grand Strand has worked together with the Charleston, SC chapter to provide customized license plates to all South Carolina citizens!

The BeachScape Program is a National Surfrider initiative designed to document current beach sizes, shoreline structures, beach accesses, outfalls, erosion hot spots and other points of interests on beaches. This program also documents the history of our beach and tracks changes to the landscape. Ideal for a school club or class project.

The Storm Drain Stenciling Program is a National Surfrider Program designed to inform and educate the public about the repercussions of dumping litter, cigarettes, waste oil/petroleum products, fertilizers etc. (anything but storm water) into the storm drain system.

“Sometimes you just have to remind them.” That was the premise behind the Grand Strand Chapter’s Beach Signs project which took place on a Friday afternoon in April 2000, where volunteers from a 3rd grade class at Myrtle Beach Christian Academy helped the Surfrider Foundation place over 200 anti-litter signs on dune fences in the hotel district of Myrtle Beach.

Denny Green recently completed two public service announcement commercials for the Grand Strand Chapter.

“Respect the Beach” is a series of learning modules offered free by the Surfrider Foundation.

Springmaid Beach and the Downwind Sails area are two of the most recognized surf spots in Myrtle Beach. If there are waves on any given day, you know it will be breaking at Springmaid. Our goal is to permanently open Beach Access at Springmaid and around Myrtle Beach.

The Hotel Water Conservation Project was a huge initiative that allowed that allowed hotel owners to save money and labor while helping to both protect and conserve the Grand Strand’s natural resources.

We have partnered with SC Department of Health and Environmental Control’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management’s (OCRM) in the Adopt-A-Beach program, which allows you to make a significant contribution to the preservation of our coastal environment by participating in a beach cleanup.