Clay County
Green Cove Springs Porta Potty Rental
Ordering portable restrooms for Green Cove Springs should take about two minutes on the phone. This page covers the things that occasionally make it take longer.
Green Cove Springs is an incorporated city of roughly 9,800 people and the seat of Clay County, on the west bank of the St. Johns — a 19th-century mineral-spring spa town that later hosted a naval air station and the Navy's St. Johns River mothball fleet.
The permitting trap
City of Green Cove Springs inside the city limits, with its own government, utilities and permitting; unincorporated Clay County outside. The city annexed the huge former naval base in 1984, so the industrial land at Reynolds Industrial Park and the Clay County Port is inside the city but is a secured private industrial and port campus with its own access control. Much of the fast-growing subdivision area west of town carries a Green Cove Springs address while sitting in unincorporated county.
What the ground does to a truck
Spring Park events sit on the riverfront with limited street parking and need city street-closure coordination, and Reynolds Park is a controlled industrial and port site wanting gate clearance rather than open access. The ongoing expressway and bridge construction keeps rerouting SR 16 and US 17, so a route that worked last month may not work this one.
Typical jobs in the area
The Clay County Agricultural Fair each spring, riverfront events at Spring Park, major highway construction on the First Coast Expressway and the Shands Bridge replacement, port and industrial work at Reynolds Park, and very heavy residential subdivision construction.
Rentals
What you can book
How it works from the call
Booking units for Green Cove Springs
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.
We set the units where you want them if the truck can get there, and somewhere sensible nearby if it cannot. Either way you find out before the day rather than on it.
You tell us the job and the ground; we tell you the count and the figure. Nothing gets booked until you have both, and the figure quoted is the figure invoiced.
Collections are booked the same way as deliveries. Call when the job is winding down and the pickup goes on the next route through.
What is actually there
A compact historic riverfront downtown of late-19th and early-20th-century buildings and frame houses, a large industrial and port campus on the old naval base to the north, and rapid new subdivision build-out spreading west and south.
The practical details
| County | Clay County |
|---|---|
| Permits | City of Green Cove Springs inside the city limits, with its own government, utilities and permitting; unincorporated Clay County outside |
| Main routes | US 17 running 28 miles north to Jacksonville, SR 16 west to Starke and east across the river to St. Augustine, County Road 315, and the First Coast Expressway corridor and Shands Bridge replacement work on the city's edge |
| Ground | A compact historic riverfront downtown of late-19th and early-20th-century buildings and frame houses, a large industrial and port campus on the old naval base to the north, and rapid new subdivision build-out spreading west and south |
| Hours | Mon-Sat 7am-7pm |
Landmarks a driver knows
- Spring Park with its historic sulphur spring and spring-fed public pool on the riverfront
- the Clay County Courthouse
- the 28-acre Clay County Fairgrounds
- Reynolds Industrial Park and the Clay County Port
- and St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Roads in and out
- US 17 running 28 miles north to Jacksonville
- SR 16 west to Starke and east across the river to St. Augustine
- County Road 315
- and the First Coast Expressway corridor and Shands Bridge replacement work on the city's edge
Before you call
Green Cove Springs - the questions we get
City of Green Cove Springs inside the city limits, with its own government, utilities and permitting; unincorporated Clay County outside. The city annexed the huge former naval base in 1984, so the industrial land at Reynolds Industrial Park and the Clay County Port is inside the city but is a secured private industrial and port campus with its own access control. Much of the fast-growing subdivision area west of town carries a Green Cove Springs address while sitting in unincorporated county. Getting that wrong is the single most common way a placement loses a day around here.
Spring Park events sit on the riverfront with limited street parking and need city street-closure coordination, and Reynolds Park is a controlled industrial and port site wanting gate clearance rather than open access. The ongoing expressway and bridge construction keeps rerouting SR 16 and US 17, so a route that worked last month may not work this one.
The Clay County Agricultural Fair each spring, riverfront events at Spring Park, major highway construction on the First Coast Expressway and the Shands Bridge replacement, port and industrial work at Reynolds Park, and very heavy residential subdivision construction. Whichever of those yours is, the count comes off the headcount and the run time, and the placement comes off the ground.
Standards, deluxes, ADA units and hand-wash stations carry their own tanks and need nothing from the site. Only the restroom trailer needs a power supply or a generator, and that is worth settling before the day rather than on it.
Nothing punitive. Weekend hires are routine and so are placements that run month after month. There is also no penalty if a job runs longer than planned.
Deliveries and collections run Monday to Saturday. For a Saturday event, a Friday drop is the comfortable answer rather than a same-day one.
Need units in Green Cove Springs?
Headcount, run time, and the ground. That is everything we need to price it.