Commercial storm drain services in Broward County

Broward County's stormwater picture splits into two very different operating environments. The east side (Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Hallandale, and the beach municipalities) is barrier-island and waterfront-adjacent, with much of the drainage feeding tidally influenced outfalls equipped with one-way tide flaps. King tides and sea-level rise have already turned a maintenance-of-tide-flaps problem into a public-relations problem; the City of Fort Lauderdale's tidal-valve and elevated-seawall program is the most visible response, but on-site catch basins and private outfalls on individual properties still belong to the owner.

The interior (Plantation, Davie, Sunrise, Weston, Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Coral Springs) is dominated by master-planned communities built mostly between the late 1980s and mid-2000s, operating inside one of several special districts. The South Broward Drainage District (SBDD) covers much of southwest Broward and feeds into the C-9 and C-11 canal basins. The Sunshine Water Control District covers most of Coral Springs. The Central Broward Water Control District covers areas around Plantation and Sunrise. Each operates the secondary canal network while on-site catch basins, lake-bank inlets, and exfiltration systems remain the property owner's responsibility under the relevant SFWMD ERP.

Florida's June 28, 2025 update to Chapter 62-330 allows the recurring O&M inspection to be certified by a qualified inspector on the state form. The periodic drainage-district recertification (commonly every 5 years) still requires a licensed engineer's seal. We confirm what your specific permit and district actually require before quoting, and we provide both. Qualified-inspector certification in-house and PE coordination when the district needs the seal. For Broward properties, that renewal cycle runs through our 5-year drainage recertification service, inspection through county filing under one flat fee.

Three failure patterns dominate the calls we get from Broward property managers. First, the tide-flap problem: east-side properties with stuck or debris-blocked one-way valves that "flood without rain." Second, the aging-exfiltration problem: 25 to 35-year-old underground systems in Pembroke Pines, Weston, and Coral Springs that the original design assumed would still be passing water at full capacity. They're not. Third, the documentation-gap problem: HOAs that come up on a recert and discover nobody has CCTV'd the system in a decade, no structure inventory exists, and the engineer can't sign anything without a documented baseline. All three are cheaper to fix on a planned cadence than during a recert deadline.

We operate across the whole county with local crews, route equipment to whichever side of I-95 the work is on, and consolidate reporting for property management firms running portfolios across multiple cities and districts.

Much of Coral Springs sits inside the Sunshine Water Control District, an independent special district that operates the secondary canal and water-control-structure network across most of the city. The City of Coral Springs runs the local MS4 in parallel, so on-site catch basins, lake-bank skimmers, and on-property control structures stay the owner's responsibility under the relevant ERP.

Coral Springs was largely platted in the late 1960s and 1970s as a planned city built around an interconnected lake-and-canal system. That gives most HOAs a high number of lake-bank inlets (which catch grass clippings and goose-related organics rather than typical road sediment) plus a steady cadence of mitered-end and outfall headwall maintenance. Communities like Eagle Trace, Country Club, Heron Bay, and Wyndham Lakes carry dozens of them.

Once a year is the floor for a Coral Springs HOA; communities with heavy tree canopy or active goose populations on the lakes usually need twice-yearly cleaning, plus a pre-hurricane-season pass. We clean lake-bank inlets, mitered ends, and small outfall structures, document condition with photos and CCTV, and flag erosion or rip-rap loss that needs repair. Lake-bank work is scheduled outside community events and coordinated with on-site landscape crews.