Environmental-Health-and-Quality

DEHQ protects the community’s health and safety where you eat, live and even swim. We inspect restaurants, markets, and food vendors to prevent foodborne illness, conduct mosquito surveillance and control to help reduce mosquito-borne diseases, inspect businesses to ensure hazardous materials and waste are properly managed, and ensure water is safe for public recreation by collecting water samples at beaches and bays and inform the public when there is a health risk if recreating in the water.

Protecting
Health

$55.4M

$5.3M

Protecting the Climate & Natural Resources

Supporting
How You Live,
Work & Recreate

$1.9M

Empowering
the Community

$2.4M

$5.3M

Protecting the Climate & Natural Resources

$1.2M

$3.2M

$1.5M

$14.5M

$2.7M

$15.6M

$1.8M

$14.8M

$757K

Conduct over 460 inspections of facilities with radioactive materials/x-ray machines to ensure the safety of the public, workers, and the environment

Inspect over 4,200 public swimming pool sites to reduce potential for pool drowning
or experiencing recreational water illness

Test water quality at 45 beaches/sites and provide faster same-day results

Monitor and treat as needed over 1,600 known mosquito breeding sites

For Hazardous Incident Response Team (HIRT) to provide emergency response to over 400 incidents.

Inspect over 15,800 food facilities including food trucks for safety, about 600 temporary events, and investigate customer complaints and foodborne illness incidents

Conduct approx. 500 solid waste facility and landfill site inspections to protect community health and safety

Permit over 14,000 hazardous material facilities and perform more than 6,400 inspections to ensure hazardous materials are properly managed and provide outreach

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Regulate water well construction and deconstruction permits

Supporting How You Live, Work & Recreate

Empowering the Community