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- Reliable information about bed bugs and ways to fight them available online - Specific information for homeowners, tenants, travelers, and students

Provides evaluation, education, and promote safe environmental practices using consistent, risk-based collaborative approach to ensure health and safety. Services include: - Develop environmental health initiatives for continued public health and safety - Enforce county environmental regulations and ordinances - Inspection and enforcement of licensed establishments. Licenses food, beverage, and lodging establishments. - Provides education and information on environmental conditions that impact health - Respond to complaints, public health nuisances, and natural disasters. Organizes cleanup of public nuisance properties. Offers education and resources on public nuisance concerns.

- Disease prevention - Environmental Health: Provides licensing and inspection for all food, pools, and lodging establishments, including temporary events - Healthy Smiles: Dental services including assessment, cleaning, education, fluoride varnish, sealants, and referrals - Medication Disposal: Accepts disposal of unneeded prescription and over-the-counter medications - Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) - Sharps Disposal: Accepts disposal of needles, lancets, and syringes (sharps) - Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP)

Seeks to protect public health by regulating environmental conditions and facilities. Services include: - Cleanup of clandestine drug lab sites - Investigation of public health nuisance complaints - Licensing and inspection of food and beverage establishments - Regulation of lodging establishments, hotels, motels, and resorts - Regulation of public swimming pools - Regulation of manufactured home parks, recreational camping areas, and youth camps - Reporting of foodborne illness concerns

Provides various environmental services including: - Healthy Homes Program information, including information about food safety, pests, radon, and water safety - Household hazardous waste, electronics, and recyclables disposal ?- Organics recycling - Product room where individuals may browse shelves and take home products such as automotive products, household cleaners, paint, stain, and other items

Offers advice on detecting invasive pests such as Emerald Ash Borer and on preventing their spread throughout the state.

Works with other entities to coordinate public health nuisance complaints, provides information and referral for food safety complaints or food handling programs, and participates in countywide coordination for water planning. Provides information on the following public health issues: - Carbon monoxide household hazards - Foodborne illness - Lead poisoning screening - Methamphetamine education - Mold in the home - Public health ordinances - Radon

- Monitors deer tick populations and provides public education regarding Lyme and other tick-borne diseases - Provides public education regarding all aspects of District programs, with an emphasis on ways to reduce risk of mosquito and tick-borne diseases - Surveys for and controls mosquitoes that transmit human diseases - Surveys for and controls nuisance causing mosquitoes, biting gnats, and mosquitoes that transmit dog heartworm

Responsible for calculating, collecting, and distributing taxes for the county, cities, township, and school districts. Also, it calculates the county payroll and employee benefits, administers and maintains the election system, and issues transient merchant, auctioneer, and liquor licenses. Also mandates beaver and gopher control.

Inspects and licenses food, beverage and lodging establishments, campgrounds, and mobile home parks. Services include: - High blood lead level follow-up - Inspect and license tobacco retailers - Investigate public health nuisance complaints - Provide education and information for food safety, water quality, and clean air. Radon test kits are available to residents. - Special event food and camping permits - Takes reports of suspected foodborne or waterborne illnesses

Provides evaluation, education, and promote safe environmental practices using consistent, risk-based collaborative approach to ensure health and safety. Services include: - Develop environmental health initiatives for continued public health and safety - Enforce county environmental regulations and ordinances - Inspection and enforcement of licensed establishments. Licenses food, beverage, and lodging establishments. - Provides education and information on environmental conditions that impact health - Respond to complaints, public health nuisances, and natural disasters. Organizes cleanup of public nuisance properties. Offers education and resources on public nuisance concerns.

Provides various environmental services including: - Healthy Homes Program information, including information about food safety, pests, radon, and water safety - Household hazardous waste, electronics, and recyclables disposal ?- Organics recycling - Product room where individuals may browse shelves and take home products such as automotive products, household cleaners, paint, stain, and other items

Public Health Nuisance Complaints is a service that ensures a safe environment.

Responds to public health nuisance complaints and works with other county departments in resolving ordinance violations. Services include: - Provides protection of ground water. Permit and inspect new well construction, sealing of abandoned wells, and the installation of Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems (SSTS). - Provides certified water sampling for anyone within the service area - Local Government AgBMP Loan Program helps farmers, agriculture supply business, landowners identify problems, and find solutions to water quality issues faced by rural Minnesota including Septic systems

Provides information on environmental health issues

Provides services to protect, promote, and improve the environment in Anoka County. Types of services offered are the following: - Education resources on food safety, groundwater protection, hazardous waste management and disposal, and recycling - Regulation of food and lodging establishments, public swimming pools, hazardous and solid waste disposal, and body art establishment - Well water information and testing

Seeks the protection of all persons in their environment. Services include: - Information regarding other environmental conditions affecting health such as insect-borne diseases, healthy housing conditions, and clandestine lab clean-up - Licensing and inspection of food and beverage businesses, public lodging, public swimming pools, manufactured home parks, and campgrounds - Managing septic compliance and new system installations to protect public health - Permitting and inspection of well-construction and sealing - Radon test kits and information

- Coordinates the overall administration of environmental service programs for the county - Develops and maintains environmental programs - Oversees all solid waste management activities of the county such as recycling, licensure of private waste haulers, transportation and processing - SWCD, Wetlands, Enforcement

- Certified water laboratory for individual and public water supply systems - Indoor air quality radon kits - Information on lead poisoning and mold in the home - Licensing and inspection of food, beverage and lodging establishments, including manufactured home park, recreational camping areas and special event food stand - Public Health nuisance control - Water sample collection for real estate transactions

- Water analysis including: fluoride, iron, coliform bacteria, nitrates, lead, hardness, and sulfates - Radon tests - Food, beverage, and lodging facility inspections - Licensing establishments - Garbage houses complaints - Lead testing/inspections

- Investigation of public health nuisances - Lead testing and education provided - Limited supply of water testing kits available - Limited supply of free Radon kits available

- Certified water laboratory for individual and public water supply systems - Indoor air quality radon kits - Information on lead poisoning and mold in the home - Licensing and inspection of food, beverage and lodging establishments, including manufactured home park, recreational camping areas and special event food stand - Public Health nuisance control - Water sample collection for real estate transactions

Provides health information and topics on: - Bed bugs - Diseases and Conditions: Details on various health conditions, including ADHD, cancer, COPD, diabetes, heart disease, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). - Environmental Health: Information on topics such as carbon monoxide, indoor air pollution, lead exposure, mold, poison safety, and ultraviolet (UV) safety. - Healthy Living: Guidance on adolescent health, food safety, emotional well-being, obesity prevention, smoking cessation, vaccines, and other immunizations. - Emergencies and Safety: Resources on specific types of emergencies, threats, injury prevention, violence prevention, and safety measures. - Public Health: Insights into epidemic investigations and vital pandemic updates. - Traveler Health: Travel health notices, disease directories, frequently asked questions, and precautions for travelers. - Workplace Safety and Health: Information on occupational safety, including topics like cancer, chemical safety, and workplace hazards.

Assures the safety of all public water systems which includes those systems that serve a residential or transient clientele, i.e. municipal, factory, school, restaurant, etc.

Services to home buyers: - Down payment and closing cost assistance - Home ownership preparation - Mortgage lending and prescreening - Prepurchase property inspections Services to homeowners: - Bid review and construction management - Free home inspections and lead paint hazard risk assessments - Home improvement planning - Low interest deferred loans - Refinancing Services to the neighborhood: - Neighborhood marketing - Neighborhood planning and development - New home construction and sales - Renovated homes for sale - Resource referrals