Land Quality

City of Fort Worth works diligently to address environmental contamination and hazards on city properties. This includes assessing soil and groundwater contamination issues; determining the best course of action for reclaiming sites impacted by pollution; managing city-generated hazardous waste and ensuring city compliance with state and federal laws; reducing blight by encouraging redevelopment of potentially contaminated sites; and demolishing substandard structures.

Land Quality Programs

Brownfields Program

By definition, a brownfield is an abandoned or underused building-structure or vacant land that has real or perceived environmental contamination which prevents redevelopment.

Environmental Use Agreements

Fort Worth property owners or their consultants may require access to city right-of-ways or other city property to conduct subsurface environmental sampling or install monitoring wells to assess possible contamination stemming from their properties.

Municipal Setting Designations

A Municipal Setting Designation (MSD) is an official state designation that certifies that a property’s groundwater will never be used as potable (drinking) water. This designation is for small amounts of groundwater that do not have contact with people or wildlife and do not flow into deep aquifers. The COFW MSD Application fee was enacted by Ordinance No. 16259-01-2005 in January 2005.

City Hazardous Material Programs