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