A key component of public health, environmental public health focuses on preventing and controlling human diseases caused or impacted by our environment. Many aspects of our environment, both built (pools, sidewalk, and park access) and natural (water, air, soil, and food), can impact our health.
Environmental public health professionals work to prevent disease and create healthy environments that promote well-being, fostering healthy, and safe communities by ensuring the safety of what we eat, breathe, touch, and drink.
Statewide activities focus on prevention, preparedness, and education through routine monitoring, outreach, surveillance, and sampling of facilities and other environments that may contribute to injuries and the occurrence or transmission of disease
Florida Water Quality
Protecting Florida Together map delivers statewide water quality information for blue-green algae and red tide (harmful algal blooms). You can sign-up to receive notifications when water quality changes in your area.
View or download our Fee Schedule for Environmental Public Health Services.
Resources
Environmental Health Forms
Drinking Water
- Drinking Water Forms & Reporting Formats | Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Application for Public Drinking Water Facility Construction Permit
- Application for Notification for Use of General Permit for Constructions of an Extension to a Public Drinking Water Distribution System
- Application for transfer of PWS Construction Permit
- Application for Certification Construction Completion and Request for a Letter of Clearance to Place a Public Drinking Water Facility into Service
- Application for Permit to Construct an Onsite Water Distribution System Regulated Under Palm Beach County Environmental Control Rule II
- Application for Certification of Construction Completion and Request for a Letter of Clearance to Place an Onsite Water Distribution System into Service for Systems
Wastewater Systems
- Domestic Wastewater Forms | Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Application for Notification/Application for Constructing a Domestic Wastewater Collection/Transmission System
- Notification of Completion of Construction for a Domestic Wastewater Collection/Transmission System
- Application for Supplement to Construction Application (For Sewers discharging through 3 or more Utilities)
- Force Main/Lift Station Check List
- Water Distribution Check List
- Sewage Collection Check List
Water Permitting Release Requirements
Septic Tanks and Private Drinking Water Wells
Solid, Hazardous, and Biomedical Waste Control
- Application For Permit To Generate Hazardous Waste
- DOH Permit Forms
- DEP Waste Management Rules and Forms