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.
The Florida Department of Health in Citrus County’s Environmental Public Health Section provides permitting, inspection, and surveillance services. They also provide regulatory and environmental assessment to private and public interests in Citrus County. More information about the specific services environmental health provides can be found in the navigation panel to the right.
Location and Contact Information
Environmental HEalth
3600 W. Sovereign Path
Lecanto, FL 34461
352-513-6100
Fax: 352-339-7054
CitrusEHPermits@FLHealth.gov
Did you know you can pay your invoice and print your permit online?