The Environmental Resource Program’s (ERP) Compliance/Enforcement Section handles a wide variety of regulatory and proprietary environmental issues in the Southeast District (SED). Our main focus is ensuring compliance with Environmental Resource Permits, which include authorizations for wetland fills, mangrove trims, dock/seawall construction, stormwater management systems, and other environmental resource related activities. Our other responsibilities include fielding complaints from the general public, state lands lease inspections and Everglades hunt camp inspections.

Please refer to the below listed information to address all of your environmental concerns.  Please be aware that you can remain anonymous when contacting our office to make a complaint.

If you are observing the following activities and think they may be unauthorized, contact Jason Andreotta at (561) 681-6639 if the violation is occurring in Palm Beach, Broward or Dade counties or Eric Shea in our Port St. Lucie branch office at (772) 398-2806 if the violation is occurring in Martin, St. Lucie or Okeechobee counties:

• new dock construction or reconfiguration
• new seawall construction
• single family wetland fills
• private/commercial marina or mutli-family dock reconfigurations
• any dredging/filling of surface waters
• mangrove alterations
• stormwater system construction

Contact the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) at (561) 686-8800 if your complaint does not fit into any of the above listed activities.

While the FDEP SED office can field complaints from Broward and Dade counties, these counties have been delegated the authority to implement the Environmental Resource Program and can take complaints also. For complaints in Broward, call Broward Environmental Protection Department at (954) 519-1499 and in Dade, call Dade Environmental Resource Management at (305) 372-6955. For non-wetland related environmental complaints in Palm Beach County, call Palm Beach County Environmental Resource Management at (561) 233-2473.

For violations occurring on the beach (i.e. east of dunes) in St. Lucie, Martin and Palm Beach counties, contact Mark Taynton; for violations occurring in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, contact Wesley Cich.  Both inspectors are with our Beaches and Coastal Compliance Program and can be reached by pager at (877) 314-1329. Please let the paging service know which inspector you are trying to reach.

ERP Compliance and Enforcement Contacts

Richard Stalker, Environmental Manager

Phone: (561) 681-6643 / Richard.Stalker@dep.state.fl.us

Jason Andreotta, Environmental Specialist III Supervisor

Phone: (561) 681-6639 / Jason.Andreotta@dep.state.fl.us

Everglades Hunt Camps

The Everglades Hunt Camp Compliance & Enforcement Inspector works with the lessees of camps that are located in the Water Conservation Areas to ensure compliance with environmental regulations, as stipulated in the Hunt Camp Lease and applicable Florida Laws. The environmental aspects of the lease address the expansion of the camp’s footprint, the maintenance of exotic plants, the generation of pollution, damages to the adjacent lands and the discharge of sewage into the Everglades. Currently there are 51 camps located in the Water Conservation Areas that are being regulated. Twelve of these camps are located on privately owned land and are bound by Florida Law, not by a lease.

Photo of a Hunt Camp in the Everglades

According to Florida Statute, no more camps may be built. Additionally, the camps under lease will have to remove their camps at the expiration of their lease, never to be rebuilt. The camps were granted a 20-year lease, with a potential for one 20-year renewal, depending on their being good stewards of the land and not impeding the restoration of the Everglades.

For questions about hunting camps in the Everglades, please contact Richard Stalker at (561) 681-6643 or via e-mail at Richard.Stalker@dep.state.fl.us.

Helpful Hotlines and Telephone Numbers

• For hazardous spills, contact the State Warning Point at (800) 320-0519.
• To report fish kills, call the Fish Kill Hotline at (800) 636-0511.
• For the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, contact (850) 922-4330.
• For the Army Corps. of Engineers Palm Beach Gardens office, call (561) 472-3504.

Florida State Warning Point

(800) 320-0519

Southeast District Main Switchboard

(561) 681-6600

Map and Directions to the Southeast District Office