Storm Water Pollution Prevention Hotline
772-344-4319
24 Hours a day
Protecting the public's health and safety is a commitment in the City of Port St. Lucie, along with this, so is protecting our environment and our waterways. One approach applied to support that commitment is protecting the ground water and surface water of our area. There are several forms of pollution that can damage our fragile eco-system, to name a few, they include turbid (dirty or cloudy) water being released from construction sites, oil spills, heavy metals from runoff of roads, and trash and debris being dumped into our storm water system (inlets, swales, drainage right of ways, and canals).
Water is not a renewable resource. All the water that exists today is all the water there ever was or ever will be. The same water, in which early American settlers canoed and from which dinosaurs drank, is the same water being used today.
Protecting our limited water supply is essential to life on our planet. Historically, the primary source of fresh water on earth was water located in rivers and lakes. Today, most of our water comes from watersheds; regions where fresh water is collected by natural gravity paths and stored until required. Water obtained from watersheds is easily polluted. This makes pollution prevention critical to protecting our limited supply of clean water.
You can help us keep our water supply, estuaries, rivers, and lakes healthy and safe by contacting our storm water pollution prevention hotline and reporting any illicit (unlawful) discharges into the storm water system throughout our city.
Items to report include:
1) Sewage on the ground
2) Any dumping into storm drain inlets
3) Any dumping in ditches, ponds, lakes or streams
4) The release of turbid water from construction sites
Please be prepared to give the following information if possible, source of pollution, location of problem, responsible party if known, date and time.
Thank you for your support
NPDES Division/Engineering Dept.
City of Port St. Lucie
