Department of the Environment (DoE)

Welcome to Your Department of the Environment

The Department of the Environment (DoE) works for a healthy, beautiful, and sustainable County through programs that provide clean water, flood control, recycling, and waste management, litter prevention, animal services, and pet adoption in partnership with residents and other stakeholders.

Click the icons to view some of our most common services:

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Litter Reduction &
Illegal Dumping

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Pets & Adoption

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Clean Water

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Juneteenth Day 2023 Waste Collections

Please note that regular curbside collections of organics (food scraps and yard trim) WILL occur on Monday, June 19. All other curbside bulky, recycling, and trash collection remain on schedule.  


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BEGINNING JUNE 1, 2023 -- NEW FOODWARE REQUIREMENT FOR BUSINESSES

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Residents receiving County-provided trash AND recycling services, can place two (2) standard bulky items directly NEXT to the trash cart/can for collection. Read more tips below and on our Clear the Curb page.

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Public Notices

  1. Laurel Stream Restoration Project

T. Howard Duckett Community Center
Stream Restoration Project Announcement

DoE is pleased to announce the upcoming water quality restoration at the WSSC Rocky Gorge Reservoir: “T. Howard Duckett Community Center Stream Restoration Project,” located in West Laurel, just east of the T. Howard Duckett Community Center. 

The project will treat the runoff from the adjacent roadways and ballfields that becomes concentrated causing significant erosion and the formation of an entrenched channel into the Rocky Gorge Reservoir. As water quality is of critical importance, especially for drinking water reservoirs, this project will help in treating the runoff into the reservoir by reducing sediments into the reservoir by 322 tons per year and restoring 56.7 of impervious acres towards the County’s NPDES Permit. DoE will commence the construction phase in Fall 2023 and anticipates completing construction operations by February 2024. Landscaping will be completed in Spring 2024.

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