St. Lucie West Services District

The St. Lucie West Services District (SLWSD) is a community development district, a special-purpose local government created under Florida Statutes chapter 190, that has served St. Lucie West in Port St. Lucie since 1990 (SLWSD About Us page).

The state record of its creation is Florida Administrative Code rule 42I-1.001, adopted by the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission with an effective date of January 1, 1990, under rulemaking authority in section 190.005 (Rule 42I-1.001, Florida Administrative Code). The rule's full text is one sentence: the St. Lucie West Services District is hereby created (SLWSD Legal Creation Statute page).

The district describes its territory as roughly 4,600 acres with about 7,000 water customers, stretching from Florida's Turnpike to I-95 and from the C-108 Canal near Torino to Crosstown Parkway (SLWSD About Us page). Its offices are at 450 SW Utility Dr., Port St. Lucie, FL 34986, phone (772) 340-0220 (SLWSD District Government page).

A St. Lucie West address is inside the City of Port St. Lucie, so residents deal with two governments. The district says the city still manages roads, traffic and policing, while the district handles water, sewer, irrigation and drainage (SLWSD About Us page).

SLWSD treats and delivers drinking water, collects and treats wastewater, supplies reclaimed irrigation water, and maintains the stormwater system, retention ponds, preserves and street rights-of-way in St. Lucie West (SLWSD About Us page).

Its Utilities Department runs a 3.6 million gallon per day reverse osmosis water treatment plant and a 2.6 million gallon per day wastewater treatment plant; water is drawn from the Florida Aquifer, and treated wastewater is reused for irrigation through a system that blends it with stormwater (SLWSD About Us page). The Public Works Department maintains stormwater systems, wetlands, preserves, ponds, road rights-of-way and storm gates, with divisions for stormwater, aquatics and exotic plant removal.

Chapter 190 is the source of those duties. Section 190.012 lets a community development district finance, build, operate and maintain systems for water management and control, and for water supply, sewer and wastewater management, reclamation and reuse (Florida Statutes section 190.012). The St. Lucie West district website groups the resident side of that work under menus for an irrigation water schedule, a lakes upkeep schedule, a rainfall chart, backflow prevention and stormwater drainage explainers (SLWSD home page).

The district also partners with the City of Port St. Lucie on some projects, citing the Lake Harvey Project, completed in early 2025, as an example of shared, grant-assisted work (SLWSD About Us page).

The district's own count lists a 4,614-acre St. Lucie West service area, about 7,000 service connections, 57 employees and 128 retention ponds covering 650 acres (SLWSD By the Numbers).

The same SLWSD page lists 3 raw water wells, 2 Class I injection wells and 2 reuse water irrigation pump stations (SLWSD By the Numbers). The About Us page gives approximately 4,600 acres and more than 55 staff, and the By the Numbers page gives 4,614 acres and 57 employees (SLWSD About Us page; SLWSD By the Numbers).

St. Lucie West owners pay the district two ways: a monthly utility bill for water, sewer and irrigation, and annual non-ad valorem assessments collected on the county property tax bill (SLWSD utility bill explainer).

The monthly St. Lucie West bill has fixed base-rate charges for drinking water, irrigation water and sewer that apply even when no water is used, usage charges from the monthly meter reading, and irrigation charges for properties on the reclaimed water system (SLWSD utility bill explainer). The reclaimed irrigation water comes from the district's wastewater plant, supplemented by water stored in its stormwater lakes. Homeowners association charges for private sprinkler systems are separate, and the district says it has no control over them.

On the tax bill, the district lists a stormwater assessment that funds the drainage system and a benefit assessment that may be levied for capital projects and can be added, changed or removed over time (SLWSD utility bill explainer). The district About Us page names its two assessments as benefit assessments, for major projects, and maintenance assessments, for stormwater systems, ponds, wetlands, preserves and rights-of-way (SLWSD About Us page). Under section 190.021, benefit and maintenance special assessments are non-ad valorem assessments and are a lien on the assessed property until paid (Florida Statutes section 190.021).

SLWSD customer service answers billing questions at (772) 340-0220 or Customerservice@slwsd.org, Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and its online account handles payments, paperless billing, automatic payments and leak monitoring (SLWSD utility bill explainer).

An elected five-member Board of Supervisors, each member a resident of the community, governs the district, oversees its budget and operations, and meets monthly in public (SLWSD About Us page).

State law sets the board's shape. Section 190.006 fixes a community development district board at five members, and once a district qualifies for resident elections, supervisors are elected by the district's qualified electors to 4-year terms in nonpartisan elections held at the November general election (Florida Statutes section 190.006). The same section requires board members to be Florida residents and United States citizens, and requires the district to publish notice of the candidate qualifying period set by the supervisor of elections at least 2 weeks before it opens. Florida Administrative Code rule 42I-1.003, titled Supervisors and effective January 1, 1990, lists section 190.006 among the laws it implements for St. Lucie West (Rule 42I-1.003, Florida Administrative Code).

The SLWSD Public Meetings and Hearings page holds the teleconference dial-in details, agendas, public hearing files and minutes of past meetings, and links a meetings calendar (SLWSD Public Meetings and Hearings page). The district encourages residents to attend its monthly board meetings to raise concerns or follow what is happening in St. Lucie West (SLWSD About Us page). The district's Elected Officials page lists the elected officials who represent the district (SLWSD District Government page).

The district boundary is a metes-and-bounds legal description in Florida Administrative Code rule 42I-1.002, which the district reprints in full on its Legal Creation Statute page (SLWSD Legal Creation Statute page).

The description is split into parcels. The south one-half parcel covers portions of Sections 35, 25 and 26 and all of Section 36 of Township 36 South, Range 39 East, plus portions of Sections 31 and 30 of Township 36 South, Range 40 East, in St. Lucie County (SLWSD Legal Creation Statute page). It begins at the southwest corner of Section 35 and runs along the easterly right-of-way line of I-95, also known as State Road 9, before turning east (SLWSD Legal Creation Statute page).

The St. Lucie West guide covers the area's parks, schools and road projects, and the Port St. Lucie utilities guide covers city water customers. Last verified: October 22, 2026, after the SLWSD home, About Us, numbers, creation statute, government, meetings and billing pages, rules 42I-1.001 and 42I-1.003 and sections 190.006, 190.012 and 190.021 were re-read.