Environmental Programs

Our Environmental Health Programs include but are not limited to:

Food Service establishment: Consultation, Education, Inspection

• Inspections, Consultations, Code Enforcement

• Food borne Illness Investigation

Water

• New well permit applications and new well inspections, sealing well inspections, consultations, code enforcement.

Follow this link to the IL Department of Public Health to review information regarding food and water borne illness.

Septic Systems:

• Consultations, Education, Inspection, Code enforcement, New private sewage disposal, permit applications.

Commercial Tanning Booth and Body Art establishment

The goal of the Tanning Inspection Program is to protect citizens from overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, which can cause skin irritation, burns, eye damage and forms of cancer.

The program consists of initial and renewal inspections, and also complaint investigations.

Tanning facility licenses are issued by Illinois Department of Public Health. Please contact our department for a permit application form and informational packet.

The goal of the Body Art Program is to prevent the occurrence of injury, infection and disease transmission as a result of improper body art procedures.

Nuisance Ordinance Investigation and Enforcement

Vector Control Surveillance including birds, ticks and mosquitos

The goal of the Vector Program is to conduct surveillance activities to identify, control and reduce the population of specific insects that have the potential for becoming disease vectors.

Please contact the CCHD within 24 hours if you feel like you have come in contact with a food or water borne bacteria.