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Wilkin County Public Health is part of Partnership 4 Health. Environmental Health Programs are managed by the Clay County Health Department and include the following services: - Food and beverage safety - Food license applications - Inspections of lodging, mobile home, and recreational parks - Water testing Additional services: - Complaint and nuisance response - Enforcement of county environmental regulations - Initiatives to improve public health and safety - Licensing of regulated establishments - Outbreak investigations - Sampling and analysis of public water supplies - Support during natural disasters

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.

Partners with the Minnesota Department of Health to provide intervention, investigation, and education for children with elevated blood lead levels. Conducts follow-up on all high lead cases, offers guidance and referrals for medical care, and coordinates home inspections for cases with blood lead levels above 15 µg/dL. Staff work collaboratively to identify potential lead sources, reduce exposure risks, and ensure appropriate medical follow-up and family support.

- 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

Winona County Health and Human Services provides environmental health services including: information and consultation on food safety, hazardous substances, indoor air quality, healthy home principals, water safety, and vector-borne diseases (tick, mosquito, and other pests). This department also regulates food, beverage, and lodging establishments, assisted living facilities, school cafeterias, manufactured home parks, recreational camping areas, public swimming pools, fair, festivals, and special events. Services offered include: - Water testing - Radon testing - Food borne illness investigation - Well construction approval - Vector-borne disease investigation

Provides information on environmental health issues

- 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

Fillmore County provides public health nursing services; radon testing kits; public health nuisance investigation; educational preparedness and response; education, promotion, and prevention strategies to address community health needs such as healthy eating, active living, food poisoning, influenza outbreaks, tuberculosis, sand radon testing.

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.

- 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

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.

- 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

Offers a variety of environmental health services, including: - Private well-water testing kits - Information about well construction and soil absorption in cooperation with Zoning administrative office - Administers health-related environmental complaints - Disease prevention control including food poisoning investigation, rabies information, sexually transmitted infection control, and tuberculosis control; pertussis; vaccine preventable disease investigations; biologic and chemical disease preparedness - all hazards approach - Radon testing

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

Monitors diseases and promotes a healthy community. Services include: - Adult and children vaccinations and information. Vaccinations are offered at the Horizon Public Health Office in Alexandria. - Community education resources to protect and prevent diseases from insects, common infections, lead poisoning, and viruses. - Safe drinking water testing: helps address common concerns, including: arsenic, coliform bacteria, lead, manganese, and nitrate and support treatment of contaminants in private wells. - Substance misuse prevention resources

- 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

- Inspections and licensing of food, beverage and lodging facilities, swimming pools, mobile home parks, campgrounds, and youth camps - Investigation of general nuisance complaints - Resource for air, water quality, and home environment concerns

Inspection services for food, lodging, and pools to ensure commercial entities are compliant with state and local health codes. Enforces state and local environmental laws and assists the state with monitoring programs. Lead and Healthy Homes: Eliminate elevated lead levels in Minneapolis for children under six and reduce indoor environmental hazards in homes and family day cares. Environmental Services: Monitor and regulate air, water, and noise pollution within the city of Minneapolis. Work with the public and businesses about energy use strategies. Develop initiatives to reduce pollution throughout the city of Minneapolis.

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

- Issues Building Permits outside of municipalities - Issues Use Permits, Planned Unit Development, Subdivisions - Enforce state handicap regulations - Enforces Zoning Ordinances, MN Shoreland Regulations, and Sanitation Ordinances - Gives out Sanitation information and permits - Provides information on Water Testing (Kits and Mail-in) - Provides Shoreland Alteration Permits - Burning Permits (they are foresters for DNR). - Administers and enforces regulations for Garbage Disposal and Recycling Programs - Manages County Transfer Station and 12 outlying canister sites - Promotes and maintains recycling program and hazardous waste collection program

Develops programs to protect and clean up the environment, protect groundwater, and establish management of solid waste in Nobles County. Offers its citizens a comprehensive recycling program through curbside and drop-box collection services throughout the county. Also works with the county planning commission which makes recommendations to the County Board of Commissioners regarding conditional use permits, subdivision plats, Zoning Ordinance amendments, and other issues as needed.

- Agricultural and Water Resources Division: Involved with all aspects of feedlot/animal production facilities; wetland management (WCA); and comprehensive water planning and aquatic invasive species program administration - Environmental Health Division: Involved with the following program areas: Food/beverage and lodging; manufactured home parks; recreational campgrounds; youth camps; food-borne illness investigation; sewage treatment systems; solid waste; household hazardous waste; and lead abatement. - Land Use Division: Functions in the following program areas: Comprehensive planning and zoning; shoreland management; floodplain management; and land subdivision.

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

- Regulates and supplys services regarding zoning, Soil and Water Conservation District, planning, agricultural inspection, and Wetlands Conservation Act. - Land use permits - Conditional use permits - Variances - Applications to plat