Environmental Health

Director: Michael Snyder R.S.
Services Available:

  • Food Service Sanitation
    • Inspect and license bars, restaurants, vending machines, mobile and temporary food vendors
    • Review plans for new or extensively remodeled facilities
    • Conduct hearings to obtain compliance with state standards
    • Conduct food-borne illness investigation
  • Water Well Program
    • Issue permits for private and small public water supplies
    • Sample and evaluate drinking water supplies
    • Verify well construction
    • Advise about water quality problems
    • Provide water analysis bottles
  • On-Site Sewage Treatment/Disposal
    • Evaluate sites for on-site sewage treatment/disposal systems
    • Issue permits for on-site sewage treatment/disposal systems construction and repair
    • Provide home loan evaluations
  • Other Services
    • Provide inspection, consultation, and/or surveillance of:
      • day care centers
      • foster care facilities
      • septage application sites and vehicles
      • subdivisions,
      • campgrounds
      • swimming pools
    • Monitor select beaches for E. coli
    • Regulate body art facilities
    • Accept ticks found attached to humans for identification by the State of Michigan
    • Sell radon kits and provide radon information