FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) - Nearly 20 volunteers with Charleston Waterkeeper lent a hand to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, keeping Lowcountry waterways clean.

The two organizations worked together to relocate 90 bushel buckets of oysters on the Folly River bridge to a nearby bank. It was the first time the South Carolina Oyster Recycling Oyster and Enhancement program held a shell relay with volunteers, and the first for Charleston Waterkeeper. Although, it's an age-old technique, it's being used to keep populations fresh.

"This practice has been around for a long, long time of relaying shell. Our program is really trying to learn it, it is an old technique but we try to implement it with ourselves, our program, and our staff. So, we've been doing them the past two th

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