The Environmental Health division provides services in many program areas including food sanitation, animal bite/rabies control, swimming pool sanitation, tourist establishment sanitation (TES), onsite sewage disposal, wells, water supplies, environmental complaints, water sampling and monitoring, and lead poisoning prevention.
The staff of the environmental health section are somewhat specialized and may not perform job duties in all programs. Some staff have the food, TES, swimming pools and general environmental programs versus others being responsible for onsite sewage disposal, wells and water supply recommendations. All the staff have job duties in rabies, West Nile Virus (WNV), and environmental complaints. The staff consists of seventeen field Environmental Health Specialists, two supervisors (one supervises the food, rabies and general environmental programs and the other supervises the sewage disposal systems and well programs). Both supervisors give guidance and recommendations in the rabies, WNV and complaint programs. The district has one Environmental Health Manager. The district regulates and permits over 900 hundred various food establishments and has been receiving, evaluating and processing over 2,000 sewage disposal and well applications per year over the past ten years.
Any questions regarding environmental health should be referred to your local health department.