Broward’s first city
Incorporated on 30 November 1904 as the Town of Dania, and settled around 1898 and 1899 under the name Modello. It became the City of Dania Beach in 1998.
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Why does age matter more in Dania Beach than in its neighbors?
Because this is the oldest city in Broward County. Dania Beach was incorporated on 30 November 1904 as the Town of Dania, after being settled around 1898 and 1899 under the name Modello. Fort Lauderdale next door incorporated in 1911, and most of the county did not exist as municipalities for another forty years after that.
That has a specific consequence behind the walls. The very earliest ground here predates cast iron as the standard drain material, let alone PVC, so the oldest housing can hold materials that are simply absent from newer cities a mile away. Galvanized steel supply, which fails by closing from the inside rather than by leaking, is a genuine possibility rather than a long shot.
The city is not uniformly old, though. A 2001 annexation brought in formerly unincorporated areas and roughly 3,600 residents, which added a completely different building era in a single step.
What is under these houses
Settled as Modello, incorporated in 1904
Seven and a half square miles holding the oldest developed land in Broward.
Older than cast iron as a standard
The earliest ground here predates the material most of the region worries about, which puts galvanized supply and even earlier drainage into play in the oldest buildings.
A 2001 annexation changed the mix
Formerly unincorporated areas were added along with roughly 3,600 residents, bringing a different building era into the city in one step.
The city runs everything itself
Dania Beach operates its own utility covering water, sewer, garbage, recycling and stormwater, so the utility and the permit are the same government.
Coast on one side, reservation on the other
The city runs from the Intracoastal and the beach across to the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation and Davie, which is a wide range of site conditions for 7.83 square miles.
How it fails here
The three calls this city generates
What the oldest housing in the county produces.
Pressure that fell over generations
In the oldest housing the supply is galvanized steel, closing from the inside rather than bursting. There is no day it broke, and every tap in the house drops together rather than one.
Compare pressure at the meter and at a tap.
RepipingA drain a century into a fifty-year life
Cast iron in the older sections is decades past its rating, and in this humidity and soil chemistry many fail well before it. A recurring clog in a house this age is the pipe reporting itself.
Ask for a camera before a third clearing.
Cast iron replacementA century of repairs by many hands
A building that has stood since before the county was settled has been worked on by a great many people. What is actually behind a wall is a genuine question, and a camera answers it faster than an opinion.
Ask what the rest of the run is made of.
Leak detectionWhere we work
The parts of Dania Beach, oldest first
Two eras separated by roughly a century.
The original Modello ground
Settled around 1898 and 1899, this is the oldest developed land in Broward County and the one place in it where pre-cast-iron material is a realistic possibility behind a wall.
The 2001 annexation areas
Formerly unincorporated land brought in with roughly 3,600 residents, which added a much later building era to the city in a single administrative step.
The beach and Intracoastal side
Coastal frontage between Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, where salt works on copper supply lines from the outside as well as the inside.
Who owns what
Permits, water and sewer in Dania Beach
One small city government running the lot.
- Water
- City of Dania Beach, municipally operatedThe city runs water, sewer, garbage, recycling and stormwater itself.
- Sewer
- City of Dania BeachWastewater and sewer are handled by the same city utility.
- Permits
- City of Dania BeachThe utility and the building department are the same government, which makes the boundary question simpler here than in most of Broward.
- Age
- Incorporated 1904The oldest city in Broward County, and worth factoring in before assuming what era the pipe belongs to.
Reviews
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Questions
Dania Beach, specifically
Is my house really likely to be that old?
It depends which part of the city you are in. Dania Beach was incorporated in 1904 and settled before that, so the original ground holds the oldest housing in Broward County. The areas annexed in 2001 are a completely different era, and the build year settles it.
My pressure is poor at every tap. What is that?
In the oldest housing it is very often galvanized steel supply closing from the inside. It happens slowly enough that there is no day it changed, and because it is the run rather than a fitting, every tap drops together.
Who supplies the water here?
The city, which runs water, sewer, garbage, recycling and stormwater itself. That makes the utility and the building department the same government, so the first call is the same one whichever it turns out to be.
Do you cover the beach side as well?
Yes. The city runs from the coast across to the Hollywood Seminole Indian Reservation, and the coastal blocks are where salt-driven pinholes in copper turn up most often.
Nearby
The cities either side of this one
Dania Beach sits between two much larger cities.
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