Environmental Health Services works to eliminate human exposure to health and environmental hazards in the environment by enforcing state laws, county regulations and city and county public health nuisance affecting commercial and private premises. Staff focuses on the interrelationships between people and their environment, promotes human health and well-being and fosters healthy and safe communities. Programmatic areas include:

• Nuisance Abatement Program
• Existing Structures Program (Housing Code)
• Mosquito Control Program
• Rodent Abatement Program
• Environmental Water Laboratory
• Air Quality Control Program
• Lodging
• Public Swimming Pools
• Lead Hazard Control Program (LHCP)

By the Numbers

• 19,022 mosquitoes tested
• 465 mosquito trap collections
• 34 square miles sprayed for mosquito control
• 17 sites treated with larvicide
• 31 residential properties assessed for rat control
• 291 Air quality
• 11,112 water samples tested
• 807 premise sanitation complaints
• 899 housing code complaints
• 4 people enrolled in EHS two housing 101 seminars
• 1,896 complaints responded to by staff
• 7 lodging inspection
• 1,896 public swimming pool inspections
• 11 public presentations for Lead and Healthy Housing
• 11 lead inspections
• 11 County Nuisance Abatements

Grants Received

• $1.2 million — Lead Grant — Department of Housing and Urban Development