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Douglas County environmental health reports air‑monitoring plans, food‑safety and lead‑prevention gains; county health outlines program and legislative updates
Summary
The county’s Environmental Health Division outlined air‑quality monitoring upgrades, pool and food‑safety work, and lead‑screening gains; the County Health Department reported increased use of a mental‑health platform, vending‑machine distribution of supplies, and tracked legislation including LB203 and LB913.
Eric Bradley, division chief for Douglas County Environmental Health, told the Board of Health that the division is planning an additional PM2.5 monitor along I‑80 to meet federal monitoring requirements tied to Omaha metro population growth and that staff used a Sherwood Foundation grant (about $42,000) to buy an ozone primary standard and carbon‑monoxide analyzer for the monitoring network.
Bradley summarized 2025 accomplishments and 2026 priorities across air quality, sanitation, pool and septic permitting, food safety and lead poisoning prevention. He said staff conducted nearly 700 commercial pool inspections and reviewed more than 300 residential pool plans last year and that the division will move commercial inspections from paper to electronic field entries using new Inspect2Go software the county…
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