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Offers testing of private wells, well and septic system inspection, radon testing and correction advice. Also provides swimming pool, spa, tanning bed, and tattoo parlor inspections.

Complaints: Receives and investigates complaints dumping and other garbage issues, illegal burning, and animal bites. When possible, works with tenant complaints regarding rental home conditions.

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Building and Safety
Pool Sanitation
Consumer Complaints
Home Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection
Radon Testing

Programs include permitting for restaurants and other food establishments, permitting for wells and septic systems, and surveillance for West Nile Virus.

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Public Facility Health Inspection
Building and Safety
Communicable Disease Control

Responsible for areas of the physical environment that often have a direct bearing on health and well being including solid waste enforcement and management, food sanitation, new water wells.

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Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection

Works to prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases. Services include:
- Food-borne illness investigations
- Sanitation referrals to Illinois Department of Public Health
- Septic and water well inspections and permitting
- Tanning facility inspections
- Tattoo and body art facility inspections
- Smoke-Free Illinois inspection and enforcement


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Building and Safety
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection
Personal Service Health Inspections
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Health and safety inspections of child care centers.

Investigates complaints regarding health or sanitation issues in child care centers.

Health and safety trainings to child care staff and provides child care health consultation services to local child care centers.

Offers a variety of public health services, including communicable disease control, tap water testing, pool sanitation, public health facility inspection, tuberculosis screening, immunizations, and more.

Administers the WIC program. Participants in WIC receive an eWIC card for healthy foods. The foods provided by WIC provide nutrients that are essential for good health and growth. Participants also meet with nurses and dietitians to review health and diet information, discuss important nutrition information for their family, and receive referrals for other services when needed.

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WIC
Public Facility Health Inspection
Water Well Construction/Maintenance/Abandonment Regulation
Pool Sanitation
Tap Water Testing
Communicable Disease Control
Dental Care
Child Health and Disability Prevention Exams
General Immunization
Tuberculosis Screening
Lead Poisoning Screening
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Public Health Nursing
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement

Offers testing of private wells, well and septic system inspection, radon testing and correction advice. Also provides swimming pool, spa, tanning bed, and tattoo parlor inspections.

Complaints: Receives and investigates complaints dumping and other garbage issues, illegal burning, and animal bites. When possible, works with tenant complaints regarding rental home conditions.

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Building and Safety
Pool Sanitation
Consumer Complaints
Home Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection
Radon Testing
Assists with complaints against healthcare facilities that have broken compliance with quality standards. Offers license, inspection, or certification for compliance with state and federal regulations.

Offers environmental health services including well water testing, septic permits, well closure or alternation reimbursement. Checks for lead poisoning, follows up on nuisance complaints. Provides food service inspections and licensing and more.

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Public Facility Health Inspection
Building and Safety
Food Handling Permits
Water Well Construction/Maintenance/Abandonment Regulation
Environmental Hazards Information
Lead Poisoning Screening

Coordinates and administers state codes dealing with environmental health. Issues septic permits, inspects septic systems, issues well permits for water wells, geothermal wells for heating and cooling. Inspects wells and conduct water testing, conducts investigations dealing with improper solid waste disposal also provides radon test kits. Under the Department of Public Health conducts swimming pool, spa and tattoo establishment inspections in accordance with State Codes.

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Mold Analysis
Public Facility Health Inspection
Environmental Hazards Information
Tap Water Testing
Home Sanitation Enforcement

Offers help to prevent disease and improve the quality of life in McHenry County. Aims to identify and address environmental concerns that impact human health by providing, public education, investigation of citizen complaints, inspections.

The enforcement of the Public Health Ordinance, specific areas include, food protection, water laboratory, potable water, private sewage treatment and disposal, solid waste management (recycling, response to complaints), public health nuisances, surveillance of West Nile virus, body art, tanning and public beaches.

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Public Health Permits
Public Health Order Violations Reporting
Public Facility Health Inspection
Disease Prevention Programs
Offers Radon testing kits, safe water supply and testing, septic, public swimming pool and spa inspections, tattoo establishments inspections, and tanning establishments inspections.

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Pool Sanitation
Tap Water Testing
Public Facility Health Inspection

Conducts routine inspections of public facilities such as restaurants, grocery stores, schools, etc.

Services include:
- Food sanitation
- Cottage food permits
- Training aids
- Investigation of complaints made by private citizens
- Mobile unit licensing
- Change in ownership (type of ownership, new partner, or new owner)

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Food Handling Permits
Public Facility Health Inspection
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Occupational Health and Safety

Offers environmental health services including well water testing, septic permits, well closure or alternation reimbursement. Checks for lead poisoning, follows up on nuisance complaints. Provides food service inspections and licensing and more.

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Public Facility Health Inspection
Building and Safety
Food Handling Permits
Water Well Construction/Maintenance/Abandonment Regulation
Environmental Hazards Information
Lead Poisoning Screening
Does inspections and issues licenses and training for restaurants, taverns, grocery stores, convenience stores and temporary stands.
Neighborhood Inspection Division has three primary responsibilities; rental inspections, the oversight of condemned buildings and the abatement of junk and debris which includes junk vehicles. Other services include:

Can also help with:

Sound permits
Transient Merchant - Application
Transient Merchant - License Information
Sign permits
Land use questions
Abandoned Wells
Animal Waste Complaints
Graffiti
Illegal Businesses
Garage sales
Illegal Dumping
Illegal Parking in Front Yards
Interior Unsanitary Conditions
Mosquito Control
Noise Ordinance Enforcement
Nuisance Odor Ordinance
Rat Control
Renting a house without a certificate
Septic System and Sewer Line Failure
Voluntary Impounds

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Consumer Complaints
Public Facility Health Inspection
Environmental Beautification
Pest Control Services
Graffiti Removal
Building and Safety
Government Consumer Protection Agencies
Ensures the quality of residents' water and property. Works with the local Board of Health on Environmental Health Topics.

Services include well construction permits, septic system permits, Grants-To-Counties funds for private well water testing/rehabilitation, nuisance complaints for public health-related issues, and Radon testing.

Also administers swimming pool and tattoo parlor inspections for the county.

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Tap Water Testing
Environmental Hazards Information
Home Sanitation Enforcement
Mold Analysis
Public Facility Health Inspection
County Government Departments/Offices

Provides inspections for, food establishments, water wells, private septic systems, public health nuisance complaints, body art establishments, tanning facilities, West Nile virus, and potable water.

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Public Facility Health Inspection
Public Health Permits

Provides Environmental Health and Building Safety. Clean indoor air enforcement, food sanitation program, housing and nuisance complaints, portable water, private sewage, solid waste, West Nile Vector Monitoring and Prevention, building permits, animal registration, and food borne illness investigations.

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Lead Poisoning Screening
Public Health Permits
Public Facility Health Inspection

Provides licensing and inspection of public establishments.

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Public Facility Health Inspection
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement

Works to prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases. Services include:
- Food-borne illness investigations
- Sanitation referrals to Illinois Department of Public Health
- Septic and water well inspections and permitting
- Tanning facility inspections
- Tattoo and body art facility inspections
- Smoke-Free Illinois inspection and enforcement


Categories

Building and Safety
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection
Personal Service Health Inspections
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Regulatory program that provides food sanitation inspections and education, as well as inspections for potable water supplies (wells), private sewage disposal, nuisance control, housing, solid waste, insects and rodents, tanning beds, and radon education.

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Tap Water Testing
Radon Testing
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Public Facility Health Inspection
Pest Control Services
Home Sanitation Enforcement

Offers a variety of services for public health and safety purposes.

Services include:

- Food Inspections.

- Food Sanitation.

- Private Sewage.

- Private Water.

- Nuisance Control.

- Vector Control.

- Inspection of Tanning Facilities.

- Radon Detection Program.

Offers a variety of services for public health and safety purposes.

Services include:

- Food Inspections.

- Food Sanitation.

- Private Sewage.

- Private Water.

- Nuisance Control.

- Vector Control.

- Inspection of Tanning Facilities.

- Radon Detection Program.

Offers license and inspections of restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, bars, public swimming pools/spas, tanning facilities, and tattoo parlors.