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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Dredge and Fill Permit Area. Dredge and Fill Permit Area are issued in those portions of Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Polk, St. Lucie under the jurisdiction of South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). These permits are no longer being issued; they were incorporated into the Environmental Resource Permitting program in 1995. Originally, these permits were issued for work conducted in "Waters of the State" (lakes, rivers, streams, canals, etc.) by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). In addition to the Dredge and Fill permit, the District usually issued a stormwater management permit that encompassed all of the development, including FDEP's dredge and fill permitted activities. The FDEP eventually delegated the dredge and fill permitting to the water management districts, so the districts would issue both the stormwater management permit and the dredge and fill permit. In 1995 dredge and fill permits were incorporated into the Environmental resource Permitting program. These permits were required for dredging, filling and construction of structures within the landward extent of wetlands and other surface waters unless the activity specifically qualifies for one of the exemptions described below. This included work in isolated wetlands throughout the state, except within the jurisdictional territory of the SFWMD, and activities which qualified for the grandfathering criteria in Sections 373.414(11), (12)(a), (13), (14), (15) or (16), Florida Statutes. This included the excavation (dredging) of channels, canals, ditches, lakes; deposition of fill; construction of docks, fishing and observation piers, wharves, mooring piles, dolphins, boardwalks, platforms, artificial reefs, navigational markers and signs, boat ramps, fences, dams,jetties, groins, dikes, bridges, utility lines, mines, salvage operations, including treasure salvage; or other dredging or filling activities in or connecting to jurisdictional waters. "Dredging" is defined as the excavation, by any means, in wetlands or other surface waters. It also includes the excavation, or creation, of a water body which is, or is to be, connected to waters, directly or via an excavated water body or series of excavated water bodies. [Florida Administrative Code Rule 17-312.020(6)]. "Filling," is defined as the deposition, by any means, of materials in waters. [Florida Administrative Code Rule 17-312.020(10)]. "Materials" includes pilings, but excludes the placement of crab traps, similar devices, and oyster cultch [Florida Administrative Code Rule 17-312.020(13)].</</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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