Areas we serve

Septic work across the region

We work across Duval, Clay, Nassau, St. Johns and Putnam counties. On the septic side that means the county health department issues your permit. On the well side the St. Johns River Water Management District delegates most of its well permitting in these counties. In Clay, Nassau, St. Johns and Putnam it delegates to the county health department, so the well permit usually comes from the same county office as the septic one. In Duval it delegates to the City of Jacksonville instead, under its own agreement with the District. The District still permits some wells itself: wells six inches or greater in outside diameter at land surface, gang wells whose total nominal casing sizes equal six inches or more, open-loop geothermal wells six inches or greater at land surface and all closed-loop geothermal wells, and — in Duval, St. Johns and Putnam — wells in a delineated area. We also serve Union and Baker counties, where the well permit works differently.

Union County is not in the St. Johns district at all. It sits in the Suwannee River Water Management District. That district issues the well permit itself, under Chapter 40B-3 of the Florida Administrative Code. Baker County is not wholly inside either district. Section 373.069 of the Florida Statutes runs the district boundary through the county, along a range line and a township line, rather than along the county line. On the St. Johns side the Baker County health department issues the permit under the delegation from that district. Which side of that line a property sits on is a question for the two districts.

Each city page below covers what the local ground does to a system, which office issues which permit, and the questions we get asked most often in that area.