Volunteers

Volusia County Environmental Health Laboratory is looking for Volunteers.

View the Calendar for Water Sampling Runs (PDF)

You Can Help

Within the past decade, spurred on by the scientific community and the growing environmental awareness of concerned citizens, there has been a surge of governmental regulations at all levels relating to environmental matters. At the federal level, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has mandated many requirements covering land, water, and air pollution.

At the state level, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) have imposed additional requirements and implementing instructions as to how EPA and FDEP programs shall be carried out.

The County has developed a wide range of environmental minimum standards that have been implemented by the municipalities and the County. These standards spell out in detail how the local environmental goals are to be met.

Unfortunately, during this same time frame, funding from federal, state and local sources has not kept pace with the increased concern for protection of the environment. As a result there is a demand for volunteers to help protect the environment.

What you would be doing as a volunteer?

Volunteers could go for a boat ride.
See Florida's flora and fauna.

For the Landlubbers:

Back at the Lab you could perform, BOD, TSS, Chloride, Turbidity, Color or other assigned tests.

For those who like computers:

The lab has data that needs to be inputted into a database (some of the data is uploaded into a National Data Base Storet) so that researchers throughout the U.S.A. can use the data being generated in Volusia County, Florida.

So what are you waiting for?

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