The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) enhances San Diegans' quality of life by protecting public health and safeguarding environmental quality, educating the public to increase environmental awareness, and implementing and enforcing local, state, and federal environmental laws. DEH regulates the following: retail food safety; public housing; public swimming pools; small drinking water systems; mobile-home parks; onsite wastewater systems; recreational water; aboveground and underground storage tanks and cleanup oversight; and medical and hazardous materials and waste. In addition, DEH serves as the Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency, prevents disease carried by rats and mosquitoes and helps to ensure safe workplaces for County employees.
Boil Water Alerts
A Boil Water Order has been issued by DEH for Barrett Honor Camp at 21077 Lyons Valley Road in Alpine. The drinking water system has have tested present for total coliform bacteria and absent for E. coli. The order was issued to ensure all water used is free from contamination. The Boil Water Orders will remain in effect until the distribution system has been disinfected and additional samples confirm the absence of bacteria in the water supply. Read the news release.
Further updates will be posted here.
New DEH Fees
On June 30, 2010 the San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved a new fee package for the Department of Environmental Health. Fiscal Year 2010-2011 fees will be operative September 1, 2010. You can review the fee schedule here.
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