- 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

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.

- 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

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

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

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.

Education and referrals about various topics that can impact the environment and people's health: - Asbestos information - Indoor air quality - Carbon monoxide information - Free radon test kits and educational resources Water quality: - Well-water testing kits for private wells - Free well water tests are available to pregnant women and families with children one year of age or younger Lead: - Information about sources of lead - Resources to identify potential lead source problems - Referrals and education on how to remove lead sources

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

Administration Enforcement for: - County Environmental Ordinances - Shoreland - Public Health - Subdivision Controls - Solid Waste

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.

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

Environmental Services includes: - Composting - Hazardous waste treatment - Recycling - Waste disposal (Dodge County Transfer Station, 62236 240th Avenue, Kasson, MN; (507)634-7875; 8 am - 6 pm Monday, 8 am - 3 pm Tuesday - Friday and 8 am - 12 noon - Saturday) - Water testing kit available for purchase Zoning regulates the unincorporated areas of Dodge County and addresses issues and permits for the rural area includes: - Conditional use permits - Interim use permits - Zoning permits Administers: - Feedlot rules and issues feedlot permits - Sewage treatment system program and enforces all land use regulation

- 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

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.

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

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

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

- 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

County-wide inspections and complaints regarding hazardous waste management. Suburban Ramsey County inspections include: - Food protection complaints (to report a food borne illness contact the Minnesota Department of Health) - Lead poisoning - Lodging facility sanitation - Manufactured home parks - Public health nuisances - Public swimming pools - Radon - Well water testing

Provides well water test kits for: - Arsenic - Coliform and nitrate - Fluoride - Lead - Manganese

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

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

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

- Blood pressure and hearing screening - Disease and disability information - Drug abuse education and prevention - Employer worksite wellness program - Health education classes and training ??- Health fairs - Test kits for water testing ???- Outreach programs - Smoking education and prevention ???