Environmental Assessment and Remediation Section

Mailing Address: 115 South Andrews Avenue Room A-240, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-519-1260 

The Environmental Assessment and Remediation (EAR) Section manages the assessment and remediation of contamination at a majority of the over 1,000 contaminated sites within Broward County.  It is the goal of the EAR Section to identify, assess, and clean up contaminated sites while protecting human health and the environment.

Specifically the EAR Section manages:

• State-funded petroleum clean-up programs for the Florida Department of Environmental Protecton (DEP) for the assessment and clean-up of petroleum contamination originating from storage tank systems;
• The oversight, licensing, assessment, and remediation of non-state funded cleanup projects involving petroleum and other chemical contamination, and;
• Sites which are in designated Brownfield areas and are addressed through a Brownfield Site Rehabilitation Agreement with Broward County. Brownfield sites are abandoned or underutilized industrial or commercial properties where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by actual or perceived environmental contamination.

Important Links:

Frequently Asked Questions

EAR License Application (.pdf, 68kB)

Contaminated Sites

Minimum Criteria for Monitoring Wells (.pdf, 63kB)

SOP for Dewatering

Remediation Times Newsletter

FDEP Preapproval Program Work Orders

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