Clay County
Fleming Island Porta Potty Rental
This page is about renting portable restrooms in Fleming Island specifically: who issues the permit, what the roads are like, and the thing about the ground there that a driver needs to know in advance.
Fleming Island is an unincorporated census-designated place in Clay County of about 29,000 people — and despite the name it is a peninsula, not an island, bounded by the St. Johns River, Doctors Lake, Black Creek and Swimming Pen Creek.
The permitting trap
Unincorporated Clay County — county building and public works. It is not a city and has no town hall of its own, so anyone hunting for Fleming Island permitting finds nothing. A large share of the population also lives inside master-planned communities — Eagle Harbor, Fleming Island Plantation, Pace Island — whose HOA and CDD rules, and Pace Island's manned gate, govern placement regardless of the county permit.
What the ground does to a truck
Pace Island is a guarded gate needing advance vendor authorisation, and the other master-planned communities carry HOA rules on screening, placement and how long a unit may sit visible from the street. Waterfront lots on Doctors Lake and Black Creek have long sloped driveways ending on soft, low ground where a loaded truck should not go.
Typical jobs in the area
Custom home construction and major remodels, golf and country club events, youth sports tournaments, boat ramp and dock work on Doctors Lake and Black Creek, and retail buildout along the CR 220 and US 17 corridor.
Rentals
Units available in this area
The delivery, step by step
Booking units for Fleming Island
One phone call sets the count, the placement and the price. Delivery follows on the agreed day, and the servicing goes straight onto a route so nobody has to chase it.
The booking happens on the phone in about two minutes. The delivery happens on the day agreed. The servicing happens weekly without a reminder. That is the whole process.
Collections are booked the same way as deliveries. Call when the job is winding down and the pickup goes on the next route through.
Extending a rental is a phone call, not a new contract. Jobs run long; the servicing just carries on until you say collect.
What is actually there
Affluent 1990s and 2000s master-planned suburbia — large two-story homes on curving cul-de-sac streets around golf courses and amenity centers, plus older estate lots and docks on the St. Johns and Doctors Lake shorelines.
The practical details
| County | Clay County |
|---|---|
| Permits | Unincorporated Clay County — county building and public works |
| Main routes | US 17 (Park Avenue) down the spine of the peninsula, County Road 220, County Road 209 and Doctors Lake Drive |
| Ground | Affluent 1990s and 2000s master-planned suburbia — large two-story homes on curving cul-de-sac streets around golf courses and amenity centers, plus older estate lots and docks on the St. Johns and Doctors Lake shorelines |
| Hours | Mon-Sat 7am-7pm |
Landmarks a driver knows
- Eagle Harbor Golf Club
- Fleming Island High School
- Black Creek Park
- Whitey's Fish Camp on CR 220 at Black Creek
- Doctors Lake
- and the historic Hibernia plantation site on the river side
Roads in and out
- US 17 (Park Avenue) down the spine of the peninsula
- County Road 220
- County Road 209 and Doctors Lake Drive
Before you call
Fleming Island - the questions we get
Unincorporated Clay County — county building and public works. It is not a city and has no town hall of its own, so anyone hunting for Fleming Island permitting finds nothing. A large share of the population also lives inside master-planned communities — Eagle Harbor, Fleming Island Plantation, Pace Island — whose HOA and CDD rules, and Pace Island's manned gate, govern placement regardless of the county permit. Getting that wrong is the single most common way a placement loses a day around here.
Pace Island is a guarded gate needing advance vendor authorisation, and the other master-planned communities carry HOA rules on screening, placement and how long a unit may sit visible from the street. Waterfront lots on Doctors Lake and Black Creek have long sloped driveways ending on soft, low ground where a loaded truck should not go.
Custom home construction and major remodels, golf and country club events, youth sports tournaments, boat ramp and dock work on Doctors Lake and Black Creek, and retail buildout along the CR 220 and US 17 corridor. Whichever of those yours is, the count comes off the headcount and the run time, and the placement comes off the ground.
For a working crew, one per ten workers on a standard week. For an event, roughly one per hundred guests over four hours, tighter for a festival crowd, with an uplift if there is a bar. Hand-wash stations run one per three units and accessible units are additive at one per eight.
Wherever anybody is eating on site, yes. It is a small part of the total and it is the item people notice is missing.
A standard wants firm level ground and about a meter of clearance on the door side. An accessible unit wants noticeably more, plus a clear route to the door. A trailer needs room to be towed in, positioned and towed out again.
Putting units on the ground in Fleming Island?
Tell us the headcount and what the ground is like. The number comes back on the same call.