Environmental Resources Management

Managing Water Pollution

Miami-Dade County is constantly working to ensure the quality of our surface water, groundwater, stormwater runoff and drinking water for our community. This includes a variety of activities such as promulgating regulations, maintaining permit programs, and participating on local advisory committees.

Sources of water pollution can be wastewater, other liquid wastes, stormwater runoff or even solid wastes that contaminate or even obstruct our waterways and conveyance systems.

An important consideration in Miami-Dade County's unique environment is that anything that spills on the ground could contaminate our source of drinking water, the aquifer, which is located just below the surface.

Many of these sources may be industrial or pretreatment facilities, however industry does not bear all the responsibility for this type of pollution. Even you contribute to this type pollution when you pour your used engine oil in the backyard, throw litter out the car window, or use too much fertilizer or pesticides at home.

Together we must work together to ensure that the water bodies, groundwater, and drinking water that we share will be clean and healthy.

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