Farmland before it was a town
Robert Parsell Davie purchased forty-four square miles of drained swamp back in 1909 to farm it. Drainage is what made the ground usable, and the water table underneath it never actually left.
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Emergency plumbing in Davie, from horse country to subdivision streets
The dispatcher takes your address, confirms which of Davie’s utilities actually serves that parcel, and sends a plumber across a town that spans nearly thirty-five square miles.
Which utility is really responsible for Davie’s water and sewer?
There genuinely isn’t one, and the town admits as much. Rather than naming a single provider, Davie publishes an address-lookup map, because Town of Davie Utilities covers much of the area while other sections fall under neighboring Sunrise or a private utility instead.
That distinction matters in practice. It determines who owns the pipe at the property line, who needs to sign off on the work, and who is on the hook for the run to the main. Most towns answer this once; Davie answers it parcel by parcel, and the smart time to ask is before digging, not during it.
Everything else traces back to the land itself. Canals drained forty-four square miles of swamp to make Davie buildable, and because that ground is so flat, the town now operates fifty-nine wastewater pump stations just to keep sewage moving toward treatment.
What the land used to be
Almost thirty-five square miles, and no single house type
Few Broward towns cover more ground than Davie, and that size is exactly why one utility map doesn’t fit the whole place.
Fifty-nine pumps keep it moving
The town operates two water plants, a wastewater plant and a reclamation facility, backed by fifty-nine pump stations serving more than ten thousand accounts: the price of building on land this level.
More than one utility, one town
Rather than naming a single utility, the town maintains a service-area map and a dedicated FAQ covering Sunrise’s water and sewer service inside Davie. Who supplies your address is a property-specific question.
Ranches beside subdivisions
Davie has never lost its equestrian character, and a good number of its oldest buildings are working ranches. Repiping a 1960s ranch house and repiping a 2000s subdivision home are genuinely different jobs, even inside the same town limits.
Permitted work is specific here
The Building Division treats new plumbing, repiping, water heater swaps, fixture moves and gas piping alike as permitted work, and since January 2026 every submission has gone through the Online Application Submittal system.
What breaks, and why
Three problems this town keeps calling about
Each one comes from the same two facts: flat drained ground, and more than one utility.
A lateral clog that won’t quit
Large lots mean a long run between house and main, crossing ground that was drained rather than naturally dry. Because roots here never go dormant, a hairline crack can fill with roots in a single season instead of several.
Request a camera instead of another cable pass.
Sewer line repairDampness with no obvious source
A shallow water table and flat ground push an escaping slab leak sideways through the fill. On a large lot that can put the wet patch a room away from the actual break, or entirely outside the house.
Locate it before any cutting starts.
Leak detectionUncertainty over whose pipe it is
Because more than one utility operates inside Davie’s limits, the ownership boundary is a real question, not a formality. Settling it up front is what keeps a repair from turning into a dispute.
Confirm the parcel’s utility before digging.
Cast iron replacementNeighborhood by neighborhood
Davie’s neighborhoods, and what shifts between them
This town is large enough that which street you’re on actually changes the job.
Forest Ridge
Davie’s largest neighborhood, roughly 1,558 homes spread across nine sub-communities. One name hides several build dates, so there’s no single answer for what’s under the slab.
Shenandoah
An established community built on large lots, meaning a long buried run from meter to house, and a leak along that run a homeowner may never see indoors.
Rolling Hills
A golf-course community combining condos, townhouses and single-family houses. Three building types in one neighborhood means three different places to look for the shut-off.
Ivanhoe Estates
Occupies generous lots in the middle of town: near enough to the core for municipal service, far enough out that the buried site run is usually the weak link.
Who runs what
Water, sewer and permits in Davie
One office handles every permit. The utility is a different question for every parcel.
- Water
- Town of Davie Utilities, or another provider by parcelThe town itself says coverage splits between several providers, and points residents to an address-lookup map instead of a single utility name.
- Sewer
- Town utilities, City of Sunrise or a private utilityThe town’s own system alone runs two water plants, a wastewater plant, a reclamation facility and fifty-nine pump stations.
- Permits
- Town of Davie Building Division, 8800 SW 36 StreetApplies to new plumbing, repiping, water heater swaps, moved fixtures and gas piping alike.
- Submittals
- Online Application Submittal, since January 2026The only route now for permit applications and other building department requests.
Reviews
What Davie customers say on Google
Pulled directly from the company’s Google Business Profile, shown under each reviewer’s own name.
5.041 Google reviews
41of the 41 reviews captured from the profile are five stars, and none is below five.
Read straight from the Google Business Profile on August 26, 2026. Counted, not estimated.
Open the Google profileWhen we attempted to turn off the toilet supply valve, it began leaking. Even as he was checking the toilet connection, the plumber was replacing the valve. Never gets wet, and it works like a charm with the new shutdown.
There was a backup in the bathroom downstairs right before weekend guests came. The professional got there earlier than planned and got rid of the blockage without making a mess. …
We had hammering noises in the pipes every time someone used hot water. The plumber secured loose sections and installed proper supports to stop the vibration. House is finally quiet again.
Questions
Common questions in Davie
Is there a way to check which utility actually serves my address?
The town keeps a searchable utility service-area map, because the answer genuinely changes from block to block. If you’re unsure, that’s something we confirm during the call rather than assume.
Is a permit required just to swap out a water heater in Davie?
Yes. The Building Division treats a water heater swap the same as repiping, new plumbing, moving a fixture or running gas piping: every one of them permitted work, every one submitted through the town’s online system.
Why does having a large lot change how the job gets done?
Because the buried runs (meter to house, house to main) are simply longer than in a tight subdivision. A long run tends to fail somewhere in the middle, out of sight, which is why locating it comes before any digging.
Is the western acreage covered the same as the subdivisions?
Yes, the entire town is covered, all almost thirty-five square miles of it. Out toward the western acreage, lots simply get bigger, buried runs get longer, and site work becomes more important than fixture work.
Is someone actually on the line at three in the morning?
Yes. A real person, not a machine, at three in the morning, on a weekend or on a holiday. None of those hours carry an overtime surcharge either.
Just over the line
Towns on Davie’s border
Few towns in Broward touch as many neighbors as Davie does.
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