Health District Responsibilities

The local health department is directly involved in the following:

  • Inspecting foodservice establishments and temporary events, public pools,  cosmetology shops and child care facilities
  • Investigating nuisance complaints
  • Reviewing plans for new and renovated facilities
  • Preventing childhood lead poisoning
  • Triaging potential rabies exposures
  • Rsponding to emergency health-related calls
  • Carrying out foodborne illness investigations
  • Fielding general inquiries concerning the above, indoor air quality, drinking water quality, wells, septic systems, lodging, housing and many more topics
  • Conducts soils testing, plan reviews and approvals of subdivisions, new lots, building additions/accessory structures/changes in use and septic system repairs for lots served by onsite septic systems
  • Reviews and approves potable, irrigation and geothermal well locations, construction and testing
  • Conducts summer bathing water sampling, which is tested by the State Public Health Laboratory
  • Registers and inspects all lodging facilities on an annual basis
  • Facilitates the transport of potential rabies animals for testing to the State Public Health Laboratory
  • Provides mosquito control site visits and larvicide treatments for standing water less than 400ft2
  • Provides the services of health education/health promotion, epidemiology, a public health nurse and emergency preparedness
  • Enforcing the applicable sections of the State Public Health Code