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. Our mission is to protecting the environment and enhancing public health by preventing disease, promoting environmental responsibility and, when necessary, enforcing environmental and public health laws. Our goal is "Healthy People in Healthy Communities Free from Disease due to the Environment. Our vision is to environmental and public health through leadership, partnership and science.
| Location: | San Diego, California - United States ![]() |
| Category: | Environment and Nature - Environmental Health |
| Tags: | Department Of Environmental Health - Deh - Environmental Health - Environmental - Health - Environmental Responsibility - Protecting The Environmental Health - Public Health - County Of San Diego - Health And Justice Services - Environmental Health In California |


