Environmental Services

Mission Statement

"Committed daily to building a better community through reliable infrastructure and exceptional service."

The Environmental Services Department is committed to utilizing the skills and knowledge of the employees to maintain Edgewater’s physical and environmental infrastructure for the residents, businesses and visitors of the city, making it a sustainable and desirable place to live, work and visit. Following local, state and federal rules and regulations, our services include the maintenance of streets, right-of-ways, sidewalks, water, sewer and stormwater systems, and vehicles and equipment along with providing refuse service and management of the recycling program.

Employees in the Environmental Services Department strive to provide top quality, professional, effective, and timely services. We do this by focusing on continuing education to maintain a highly skilled work force and concentrating on relationships with ourselves, and our customer service and satisfaction, thus improving our image and maintaining the community’s trust.

Environmental Services Announcements

The Department of Environmental Services is made up of many divisions, each being committed to utilizing their skills and knowledge to maintain Edgewater's physical and environmental infrastructure. Check out the quarterly reports for the Department, they will provide our residents with a snapshot of the work accomplished each quarter by clicking here. KPIs or key performance indicators, are quantifiable measures of performance over time for a specific objective to pursue continuous improvement. Our specific KPIs provide targets for our teams to shoot for, milestones to gauge progress, and insights that help us make better operational decisions. To see what each division has accomplished click here.

Hurricane Milton Information

For all information about Hurricane Milton City Services please click here.

Free Chlorine Burn - October 15, 2024 through approximately November 5, 2024

All City of Edgewater's water customers along with Volusia County's Southeast Utility customers will be part of the Free Chlorine Burn. The City of Edgewater uses chloramines to disinfect the drinking water. To maintain the pipes that deliver your water, conventional free chlorine disinfection will replace chloramines for approximately three weeks starting on October 15, 2024 and continuing through approximately November 5, 2024. The water will continue to meet Federal and State standards for safe drinking water, though you may notice a slightly different taste or odor. If you are especially sensitive to the taste or smell of chlorine, keep an open container of drinking water in your refrigerator for a few hours to allow the chlorine to dissipate. Dialysis Patients, users of kidney dialysis machines should not be impacted but should contact their dialysis care provider for more information about water testing and precautions regarding chlorine removal. Aquarium owners, please contact your local pet suppliers with any questions regarding your aquarium. The temporary change to free chlorine should not affect those with live fish if a system is already in place to remove chloramines.

For more information or questions contact the City of Edgewater's Alan R. Thomas Drinking Water Plant via phone 386.424.2400 Ext. 4030.

Planned activities for the week of September 30, 2024

Stormwater crews will be working at the following locations:

Mowing the Woodland-Yule canal at 31st Street, headed north
Finishing up mowing the Unity-Vista canal from 22nd to 27th
Mowing the Orange-Pine canal, starting at 12th Street headed south (probably on Wednesday)
Cleaning the Fern-Guava canal from 22nd to 26th
Repairing the Fern-Guava canal at 27th Street
Opening pipe ends and swales on Silver Palm Drive south of 26th Street
The vac truck will be running on Friday

List of Stormwater Division activities for September 26, 2024:

Mowing Unity-Vista canal (north end of the Woodland Yule canal) at 23rd Sreet and working its way south
City crews are opening pipe ends on Silver Palm Drive
Farmton/Miami Corp (company planning the development west of I-95) has two crews cleaning pipe ends on Unity Drive and Vista Palm Drive. They are almost done with Unity Drive from 35th to 22nd and will start on Vista Palm Drive at 35th Street this morning
DR Horton (using Atlantic Pipe Services) ran their vac truck through all of the driveway pipes on Yule Tree Drive, from 35th to 34th, yesterday
City crews are running their storm routes to check pipe ends, canals, and inlets to make sure everything is open and flowing
We will be restocking the sand piles at Mango and Hibiscus today
Hibiscus/26th sand pile will be staffed 8:30 am to 3:30 pm (weather permitting)
Mango Tree sand pile will be staffed 8:30 am to 6:00 pm (weather permitting)

List of Stormwater Division activities for September 25, 2024:

Mowing the Woodland-Yule canal. Currently around 32rd Street, headed north
Mowing Umbrella-Travelers canal is complete
Umbrella-Travelers machine is starting on the Unity-Vista canal (north end of the Woodland Yule canal) at 22nd Street and working its way south
City crews are opening pipe ends on Silver Palm Drive and Tamarind Drive
Farmton (company planning the development west of I-95) is sending two crews to clean pipe ends, we will have them starting on Unity and Vista at 35th and working their way north
BriarTeam (building Parks of Edgewater off Volco Road) will be running a vac truck on Umbrella cleaning culverts, starting at 36th and working their way north
We will be restocking the sand piles at Mango and Hibiscus today
Mango and Hibiscus sand piles will have staff working them until 3:30 pm and then Mango will have someone until 6 pm.

Reclaim Water - As of 09.10.2024 Reclaim Water will be on 24/7

With the recent return to a normal rainfall pattern, Wastewater Treatment Operators are able to keep the Reclaimed Water distribution system supplied on a continual basis to serve all customers throughout the day. The reclaimed water distribution system will remain in operation 24/7 until further notice.

If you have any questions please contact the Department of Environmental Services at 386.424.2400 ext. 4007 or ext. 4006.

Household Garbage Pick Up Information

The Refuse Division is now requiring refuse carts to be place away from other objects. There should be at least 3 feet between all other items (mail boxes, bushes, telephone poles, parked vehicle, other garbage or recycling containers, piles of brush). For further information click here.

2023 Water Quality Report

The City is very pleased to provide you with this year's Drinking Water Quality Report. This report is designed to inform you about the quality water and services we deliver to you every day. Our constant goal is to provide you with a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. We want you to understand the efforts we make to continually improve the water treatment process and protect our water resources. We are committed to ensuring the quality of your water. Our water source is ground water from fourteen wells. The wells draw from the Floridan Aquifer. It is aerated to improve taste and odor, and chlorinated for disinfection purposes, ammoniated to control disinfection byproduct formation, softened to lower total hardness and alkalinity, pH adjusted and filtered for aesthetic purposes. It is then treated with a phosphate-based inhibitor to reduce corrosion of your household plumbing. You can read it by clicking here, if you prefer a printed copy of the report please contact the Department of Environmental Services at 386.424.2400 ext. 4007.

2024 Water Service Line Inventory

As part of a nationwide effort required by the EPA, the City of Edgewater conducted a Water Service Line Inventory starting March 29, 2024 and completed in September 2024. The focus of this inventory is to document the types of materials used in water service lines that were installed prior to the ban on lead pipe for drinking water to determine the presence or absence of lead pipe in each location. At the time of inspection, approximately half of all water services in the City were constructed prior to the State of Florida ban on lead pipe for drinking water which went into effect in January 1989. The City of Edgewater enacted a City-wide ban on lead pipe for drinking water in November 1975 which prohibited the use of lead pipe in water service and water supply systems, which are the drinking water pipes that are external to a building connecting back to the City's water treatment plant.

Environmental Services Staff conducted this Lead Service Line Inventory (LSLI) by excavating to visually observe the pipe material going into and out of our water meters. Over 4,000 locations were inspected, including all locations where water supply and water service piping was constructed prior to the City-wide ban plus many of the locations constructed between the 1975 City ban and 1989 State ban.

The results of the LSLI Inventory are that no lead pipe was found in any location in the City of Edgewater water distribution system.

To review the results of the 2024 Water Service Line Inventory, please use the City of Edgewater Interactive map: Lead Inventory Review Map

City staff will be happy to answer any specific questions you may have. Please use the "Contact Us" feature on the City's website www.cityofedgewater.org and choose "Water" from the drop-down menu, email at EnvironmentalServices@CityofEdgewater.org or by phone at 386-424-2400 ext. 4007.