Fort Collins erosion control bonds.
From $100. Enter your amount.
When you develop a site in the City of Fort Collins, the City conditions your development or grading approval on a bond guaranteeing your erosion- and sediment-control measures. The City sets the amount from your approved plan, and pricing runs 2% of the bond amount plus a $25 fee, $125 minimum. Your exact price appears at the application, after one soft credit pull.
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No broker phone tag for a Fort Collins erosion-control bond — enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with the City. Here is the whole thing:
Apply online
Your business details, the bond amount the City set, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. That is the entire application.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
File with the City of Fort Collins
Pay and receive the executed bond, ready to file with your development review or grading permit. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the City insists on them.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
The City of Fort Collins reviews development and grading projects for stormwater impact, and conditions approval on erosion- and sediment-control measures that keep soil and silt on your site and out of the City's storm system and the Poudre River. The bond is the City's financial guarantee that those measures are installed and maintained.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and the City of Fort Collins (the obligee). If erosion-control measures fail or are never installed and the City has to step in, the City can recover its costs against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays the City, you repay the surety. Developers who install and maintain their approved erosion-control plan treat the bond as a permit formality, not a risk.
You need this bond if you're
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
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Pricing from $100, soft pull only. Enter the amount the City set and file the same day.