For an Orange County building project involving a private well or septic system, start with the current Environmental Health office and the County’s current application requirements, not the contact panel in the old residential permit brochure. That brochure is marked April 2009 and points to a different office address. Historical brochure, current Environmental Health location
The County’s One-Stop guide tells applicants whose property uses septic to contact Environmental Health before applying for a building permit. A plumbing permit, well-construction permit and septic approval answer different questions; one should not be assumed to replace the others.
Route the water and wastewater questions separately
| Project question | Current official starting point | Important limit |
|---|---|---|
| A proposed domestic, irrigation or monitoring well less than six inches in diameter | Orange County Environmental Health’s drinking-water program | Its stated local drilling-permit scope is size- and use-specific; do not extend it to every well |
| Septic permitting or inspections in Orange County | Local onsite-sewage program | DEP’s statewide regulatory role is not the same as the local application counter |
| Whether the water/wastewater documents satisfy the building application | County Building Safety, through the One-Stop process | An application to another office is not proof that the building-review requirement is satisfied |
The drinking-water page says most of Orange County is in the St. Johns River Water Management District, while southern portions are in the South Florida district. For a well outside the local office’s stated scope, ask which district and permitting route serve the parcel; the County name alone does not settle that question.
The state’s septic program page identifies 16 counties where DEP assumed permitting in January 2025. Orange is not on that list; the page directs residents of other counties to their local health department. This corroborates the Orange office’s current septic instructions rather than relying on the 2009 brochure.
Send one consistent project description to both offices
LSL’s handoff check is to compare these four items before submitting the building file:
- Same site: address, parcel identifier and project description match across the documents.
- Same proposal: identify whether the well/septic system is existing, new or being changed. Do not describe an application as an approved installation.
- Same drawing: identify the site-plan version each office reviewed; flag a moved structure, well or wastewater component instead of silently swapping drawings.
- Actual decision: identify the permit or review response, its conditions and any unfinished inspection or documentation. Ask Building Safety which of those records it needs for this project.
This is an optional coordination aid, not an official four-item application checklist. The offices determine the required plans, setbacks, permits and sequence. LSL has not determined whether any parcel may use septic instead of sewer or whether an existing system can support a changed use.
Use the current contact, not the brochure’s old address
The Environmental Health location page lists 1001 Executive Center Drive, Suite 200, Orlando, 407-858-1497 and OrangeEVHPermitApplications@FLHealth.gov. Confirm the appropriate submission method before a visit or sending documents.
A well-drilling approval is not a drinking-water test result. The drinking-water page treats well construction, water testing and limited-use water-system regulation separately. Likewise, septic construction approval is not a general promise of future performance.
Verification and historical limit
LSL checked the current County intake guide, local water/septic and office pages, statewide septic routing and both pages of the old brochure on September 20, 2026. The brochure was read in text and native layout to identify its revision and outdated contact information. Its broad pre-issuance description is not used to decide the exact sequence for a present-day private project. No parcel, application, well, system or water sample was inspected.