MCU Engineering ensures water & wastewater development follows the LDC* from planning & reviewing stages to final project clearance.  LDC design and construction standards are available online; last revised 4/13/23. 

Senior Engineer/Engineer

• Oversight of MCU’s Capital Improvement Program plans design
• Support for RGBs to assist others developing utility system designs
• Modeling of Countywide utility systems
• Finds & implements grant opportunities to offset owner costs for water main extensions, and septic-to-sewer initiatives
• Maintains Marion County Land Development Code (“LDC”) design and construction standards
• Reviews and approves engineers’ online FDOT permit applications

Permitting

• Reviews site plans for utility applicability and LDC compliance
• Applies, modifies, and releases building permit holds
• Invoices for new service connections related to new permits
• Creates new commercial customer accounts
• Creates meter and service tap work orders for MCU Field Services
• Creates water and wastewater pressure test work orders

New Development

• Reviews site plans for Development Review projects including Major and Minor Site Plans, Improvement Plans, Plats, and Utility Plans
• Provides MCU plant data to engineers for FDEP permit applications
• Assists developers with utility-related waivers
• Ensures Pretreatment standards for fats, oils, grease, hair, fur, sand or petroleum products discharged in to the wastewater collection system
• Determines Developer Agreement applicability, and support (as applicable)
• Calculates water & wastewater capacity charges per LDC
• Handoff of approved development projects to MCU Construction for buildout, certification, connection, and closeout.

Private Water Main Extension

• Provides water & wastewater availability for parcel inquiries
• Offers project oversight for owner-required water main extensions including design, MCU’s pricing, and Agreement approvals
• Manages Benefiting Lot reimbursement (as applicable)
• Creates support maps for water & wastewater pressure tests

Asset Management/GIS Mapping

• Acquires GPS data for utility infrastructure installations through field visits and modern survey equipment
• Maintains MCU’s GIS layer using as-builts and state plane data through project closeout
• Updates the county’s online Interactive Map Utility layers which offers assistance to those researching central water availability

Still have questions?  Contact us by email and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. New Development cannot answer questions about account history, meter installation timelines, or other customer service-level issues.  If you have a general customer service question, please contact MCU Customer Service.

*excluding cities of Ocala, Belleview, and Dunnellon which comply with their own municipal regulations.