Disaster Sanitation

Disasters can take many different shapes, both natural and unnatural. Natural disasters, such as a flood, can affect your food and water supply, indoor air quality (mold), and lead to disease transmission.

To help protect your health in a disaster, we are providing links on this page to documents about protecting your food and water, well and septic system, cleanup after a disaster, and other disaster related environmental health topics.

I hope that you don't ever need this information, but the best way to make it through a disaster is to be prepared for it.

Environmental Health inspects emergency shelters when they are needed for a disaster.

The Health Department also has a Threat Preparedness Page with additional information about how the Health Department is involved with preparing for, and responding to, different types of emergency events.