Doral, FL Environmental Rules: Erosion Control (2026)

Section 30-4, applicable to any property in the city where construction or demolition is underway, sets out four maintenance duties for construction sites. Subsection (3), covering the roadway and public rights-of-way, requires the responsible party to keep the roadway, whether private or public, and all rights-of-way fronting the site clean of dirt, sediment and construction dust, and to maintain best management practices that comply with the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System construction site erosion and sedimentation control plan. The code names specific BMPs the responsible party must maintain: a temporary gravel construction entrance and exit, storm drain inlet protection, and a staked turbidity barrier, meaning a silt fence.

If the building, code compliance, or public works department asks, the responsible party must maintain and replace any BMPs damaged by construction or other activity and must remove material resulting from construction; if a swale or sidewalk is damaged during construction, it must be repaired. The broader section also requires sites to be kept in a reasonably clean and orderly condition, to be watered as needed to control dust, to keep a dumpster on site that is emptied when full (waived for single-family additions or remodels that do not create a nuisance), to contain debris within the site boundary, to bar construction materials or debris from ever sitting in the public right-of-way, and to park all construction vehicles within the site itself.