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The Water Facilities staff is responsible for
compliance and enforcement for Domestic Waste Industrial
Waste and Potable water regulated facilities in Martin
Okeechobee and St Lucie Counties. In addition staff
investigates complaints and assists the SED permitting staff
in permit renewals.
Industrial Wastewater Section
The Department of
Environmental Protection's Industrial Wastewater Section
issues discharge permits that authorize the discharge of
properly treated wastewater to the land or to waters of the
state. The section is the responsible for regulating of
vehicle wash facilities, power plants, citrus processing
facilities and dairy and chicken farms. Any waste combined
with water that is not sewage (domestic waste) is industrial
waste. The Port Saint Lucie contact for Industrial Waste is
Terry Davis. He can be reached by email at
Terry.Davis@dep.state.fl.us.
Potable Water Section
The FDEP has
the primary role of regulating public water systems in
Florida. Authority derives from Chapter 403, Part IV,
Florida Statutes and by delegation of the federal program
from the EPA. The FDEP has promulgated a number of rules in
the Florida Administrative Code.
A public water
system is one that provides water to 25 or more people for
at least 60 days each year or serves 15 or more service
connections. These public water systems may be publicly or
privately owned and operated.
Very small
water systems which provide water for public consumption,
but which do not fall under the above definition, are
regulated by the
Department of Health and the county health departments.
Bottled water and water vending machines are regulated by
the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
Division of Food Safety. Digging of water wells, both
public and private, and the quantities of water that may be
extracted, are regulated by the Water Management Districts.
The
Port St. Lucie branch office contacts for potable water are
broken into counties. The email contacts by county are as
follows.
St. Lucie County Vacant
Martin County Jocelyn Labbe’
Jocelyn.Labbe@dep.state.fl.us
Okeechobee County Jerry Toney
Jerry.Toney@dep.state.fl.us
Wastewater in Florida
There are over 3,000 individually permitted domestic, not
including septic systems, and industrial wastewater
facilities in Florida. Less than a quarter of these
facilities are authorized to discharge to surface water. As
surface water dischargers, they are subject to the
Department’s federally authorized
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
requirements. However, many of these NPDES facilities also
discharge to ground waters. The remaining facilities are
authorized solely as groundwater discharges through
land-application,
beneficial reuse of reclaimed water or
deep well injection.
A little less than three-quarters of the individually
permitted wastewater facilities in Florida are classified as
domestic (municipal) wastewater facilities. In
general, domestic wastewater facilities are those
principally designed to collect and treat sanitary
wastewater or sewage from dwellings or homes, business
buildings, institutions, and the like. The remaining
one-quarter individually permitted facilities are classified
as
industrial wastewater facilities.
PSL Office Water
Facilities Management Contacts
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Southeast District -
Port St. Lucie Office - Water Facilities Program
2012 State of Florida