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 STD Environmental Health

The Bureau of Environmental Health consists of six departments:  Environmental Health, Safety and Management; Food and Consumer Safety; Healthy Homes, Environmental Consumer Management and Senior Care; Housing and Neighborhood Health; Mosquito and Rodent Control; and Water Quality and Hazardous Materials Management.  The Bureau is primarily responsible for enforcing laws and regulations protecting our health while ensuring a safe and healthy environment.  This is done through the inspection of residential and business properties; cleaning of vacant homes and lots; sampling residential wells, lakes, and streams; and providing services to eliminate pests that may cause disease.  The Bureau also accomplishes this mission through education by attending neighborhood meetings, volunteering for activities that improve the quality of life for neighborhoods, working with our most vulnerable populations – children and seniors, producing quarterly educational newsletters, and serving on committees with public and private partners throughout the community to achieve health and safety goals.

 

 


Fill out a form for any issues you may be having in the following areas to inform the health department:

 

Environmental Health Safety and Management
Responsible for Cleaning Dilapidated and Abandoned Property, Cutting Weeds and Grass

 

Food and Consumer Safety

 

Healthy Homes, Environmental Consumer Management & Senior Care Department
Lead Inspections, Blood Lead Testing, Health Homes Inspections, consumer Product Testing, Radon Tests, Bed Bugs

 

Mosquito Control
Larviciding (investigating areas of standing water and treating those that are breeding mosquito larvae)
Adulticiding (fogging of neighborhoods to reduce the adult mosquito population)

 

Rodent Control
Investigation and Baiting of Potential Rodent Habitats

 

Housing and Neighborhood Health
Occupied Housing, Trash and High Weeds and Grass, Vacant Structures (Commercial or Residential) in Disrepair, Vacant Open Structures, Abandoned Junk Vehicles on Private Property

 

Water Quality and Hazardous Materials Management

 

Environmental Public Health Tracking 

For more than 20 years, the CDC’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program has collected, integrated, and analyzed non-infectious and environmental data from a nationwide group of partners – over 30 states and numerous counties are represented in this network. The Marion County Public Health Department’s (MCPHD) Environmental Health Tracking Program was created in August 2022 after the agency was awarded a grant to join the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program. We invite you to explore our data, learn more about our tracking program, and review further resources. MCPHD’s tracking program seeks to provide data on health, the environment, and our population’s demographics to empower the public and other stakeholders to review and analyze this data.