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Congaree National Park
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Who’s defending Congaree?

1 group likely to care, a guess from mission and footprint

National park in South Carolina, 26,692 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1976.

Likely to care

Groups likely to care about Congaree

This group is a guess from each group's stated mission and where it works, not a record of work on this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

1 more work nearby but is not tied to Congaree on the record

More ways in

Southern Environmental Law CenterWorking this regionLegal

The situation

What’s happening to Congaree

Four miles from the largest intact tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in North America, a nuclear fuel factory is leaking contamination into the groundwater. The Department of the Interior says the plume could reach Congaree National Park. Upstream, forever chemicals and plastic pellets flow into the same rivers that feed the swamp. The old trees have survived centuries of floods. What they cannot survive is what we put in the water.

  1. 1976Established as Congaree Swamp National Monument
  2. 2003Redesignated as national park
Nuclear facility contamination migrating toward park

Source: Spokesman-Review · February 1, 2026

No public comment window is open on Congaree right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Congaree

GiveGive to Friends of Congaree Swamp

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Congaree, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Build my lineup around Congaree: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Congaree has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Congaree, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.