Program staff intends to conduct program activities in a responsive, service-oriented and flexible manner resulting in properly constructed, operated and maintained domestic wastewater systems which provide a high level of protection for the environment. Every time you flush your toilet, wash your hands, turn on the dishwasher or do your laundry, you are creating domestic wastewater. Before 1950, all domestic wastewater was disposed of through septic systems or direct discharge of treated waste to area waterways. Today, while some Broward residents still use septic tanks, most households are connected through the sanitary sewers to a local utility's sewage treatment plant. WRD's Domestic Wastewater Program licenses all facilities downstream of the lateral including sanitary sewer pipes, pumps, and treatment plants in Broward County .
Applications are available electronically and include the fee schedule for licensing.
DPEP tracks existing flows to the WWTP as well as capacity reserved for new development. To obtain a copy of Acrobat Reader, used for downloading, viewing and printing these files, Click Here . This is a one time process, please follow the installation and browser configuration instructions provided by Adobe Acrobat. Added to these flows are the committed wastewater flow generation estimation for their service areas. These flow estimations are retrieved from the construction permit applications received at the Building Department for the respective WWTP service areas .