Local Stormwater Compliance Across Dallas–Fort Worth

City requirement guides

Each guide pulls the requirements a contractor plans around straight from the city's own ordinance, engineering standards, and prep guidelines — the inspection cadence, the BMP specs, the submittal order, and what gets checked at closeout.

• Frisco seven-day self-inspections, wire-reinforced silt fence, and a submittal path through city engineering.
• Celina a fraction-of-an-acre earthwork permit and the region's only Gold-certified stormwater program.
• Prosper weekly inspections, a signed contractor certification, and the town's own field rules.
• McKinney a grading permit at the first soil disturbance, city inspection before the work starts, and the regional standard written into the general notes.
• Plano the city's own mandatory SWPPP narrative sheets, split by project size, with a city-published erosion control manual behind them.
• Fort Worth a grading permit and drainage study from the first acre, an engineering stormwater plan behind the permit, and rules revised on a live calendar.
• Southlake SWPPP acceptance through the city's own portal, then a weekly inspection-and-upload rhythm.
• Mansfield a small-site notice under five acres, and a large-site notice posted by both operators.
• Dallas a city code section that applies at every size, with the state permit stacking on from the first acre.
• Garland coverage paperwork due two days before construction, and a weekly-plus-rain inspection clock in the city code.
• Highland Park the town's own protection measures, continuously maintained, with shut-down authority behind them.
• Sherman a five-day stabilization clock, a sub-acre plan at building permit, and the regional BMP manual as design law.
• Denison two-day pre-excavation submittals and an erosion ordinance that finishes review before dirt moves.
• Pottsboro a still-active small-town program with two-week inspections and contractor reports on file.
• Arlington a Phase I city whose own pollution control ordinance layers onto every size tier, with city inspectors on the ground.
• Grapevine an erosion ordinance older than the modern state program, a most-restrictive-governs clause, and tree permits with real penalties.
• Keller a grading permit with no acreage floor, three-official review, and arborist-signed tree surveys.
• North Richland Hills a bond posted against the erosion controls before grading, regional design criteria written into the code, and a short cure clock when a control fails.
• Grayson County which cities up here run their own programs, and where the state permit is the whole rulebook.
• Van Alstyne a growth-corridor town with no city stormwater program on file, and what that puts on the contractor.
• Allen a clearing and grading permit before the dirt, with erosion and tree devices as permit conditions.
• Melissa a land disturbance permit on a ten-business-day clock, and weekly inspections on every active site.
• Denton plan approval through Watershed Protection, a perimeter check before the site runs, and stream buffers.
• Lewisville a stormwater plan on every construction site regardless of size, and a permit for any earthwork.
• Irving a city permit before earthwork, sealed plans on larger sites, and city inspectors on the ground.
• Grand Prairie the pollution prevention plan reviewed and accepted before dirt moves, with signed, engineered plans.
• Richardson controls expected whatever the project size, and a tree mitigation plan filed with the grading permit.
• Carrollton a published three-tier threshold table, paperwork ahead of construction, and demolition submittals.
• Gunter a growth-corridor city with no stormwater program on the state registry, which puts the state permit at the centre.
• Whitesboro no city program on the state registry — the state construction permit is the rulebook, and the operator carries the record.

More cities are added as their requirements are verified against primary sources.