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Public Health Educators answer questions and provide information on environmental health topics such as mold, radon, and rabies. They perform inspections only for property complaints deemed public health nuisances, such as dumping garbage or exposed sewage. Radon home test kits are available for $2 as supplies last.

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.

• Blood pressure and sugar screenings

• Car seat safety

• Childbirth classes

• Child and teen check-ups

• CPR and AED training courses

• Disease prevention and control

• Emergency preparedness

• Environmental health hazard information on mold, radon, lead and meth

• Fall prevention program

• Follow along program for child development tracking

• Foot care clinics

• Health fairs

• Immunizations

• Lactation Education

• Medication disposal information

• Outreach for pregnant women, parents of infants and young children

• Postpartum home visits

• Prenatal education

• Tobacco use and exposure prevention

• Well child checks

• WIC program

Provides environmental health services to protect community health. Services include:

• Environmental health licensing and ordinance enforcement

• Inspection and licensing of food, beverage, lodging, mobile home parks, recreational camping areas, and public pools

• Investigation and response to environmental complaints, including nuisance and sanitation concerns

• Lead testing and inspections for homes and other properties

• Radon testing and education

• Water testing for private wells, including analysis for fluoride, iron, coliform bacteria, nitrates, lead, hardness, and sulfates

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

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.

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

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.

Provides various services to provide a healthy community and environment including:

• Healthy home assessment: Provides an assessment to determine safety and health of home

• Short-term radon test kit

• Well water testing kit

Administers and enforces the following:

• Shoreland Management Ordinance

• Subdivision Controls Ordinance

• Sewage and Wastewater Treatment Ordinance

• Minnesota Wetlands Conservation Act

• Solid Waste Management Ordinance

• Operates Demolition Landfill - Transfer Station

• Inspections of new Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems

• Issues Land Use and Sewage Permits in shoreland areas

• Issues Sewage Permits county wide

• County Agriculture - weeds and seeds

• Recycling program

• Blood pressure and hearing screening

• Disease and disability information

• Drug abuse education and prevention

• Employer worksite wellness program

• Health education classes and training

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• Test kits for water testing

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• Smoking education and prevention

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Provides environmental health services to protect community health. Services include:

• Environmental health licensing and ordinance enforcement

• Inspection and licensing of food, beverage, lodging, mobile home parks, recreational camping areas, and public pools

• Investigation and response to environmental complaints, including nuisance and sanitation concerns

• Lead testing and inspections for homes and other properties

• Radon testing and education

• Water testing for private wells, including analysis for fluoride, iron, coliform bacteria, nitrates, lead, hardness, and sulfates

• 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 parks, recreational camping areas, and special event food stands

• Public Health nuisance control

• Water sample collection for real estate transactions

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.

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

Administers the Clean Indoor Air Act for the state of Minnesota, which regulates smoking in public places and work places. Provides information about mold, finding it in a home, cleaning up and why it's a health issue. Also gives information on finding radon and where to buy radon testing kits.

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

Responsible for the following services:

• Administers low-interest loan programs available to residents for septic system upgrades

• Develops zoning ordinances and the County Comprehensive Land Use Plan

• Education, organization, and implementation of the countywide recycling program and pickup

• Enforcement of state and county noxious weed laws

• Implementation of the Individual Septic Treatment System (ISTS) program and enforcement of the Solid Waste Plan and Ordinance

• Management of biocontrol areas for noxious weeds (e.g., leafy spurge, musk thistle)

• Operation of the county landfill transfer station

• Operation, maintenance, and repair of public drainage systems

• Regulation of certified seed dealers, including periodic inspections and sampling

• 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

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

Provides environmental health services to protect community health. Services include:

• Environmental health licensing and ordinance enforcement

• Inspection and licensing of food, beverage, lodging, mobile home parks, recreational camping areas, and public pools

• Investigation and response to environmental complaints, including nuisance and sanitation concerns

• Lead testing and inspections for homes and other properties

• Radon testing and education

• Water testing for private wells, including analysis for fluoride, iron, coliform bacteria, nitrates, lead, hardness, and sulfates

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

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 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

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.