If you are planning to bring in permit applications, operation reports, or other documentation please mail it in until further notice. Receipts for permit fees will be mailed out with your permits. If you must drop something off there is a lock box marked "Environmental Health" located in the entry way to the Health Department. Please call 778-2847 with any questions.
The programs offered by this division strive to preserve and protect the quality of the environment as it impacts the public health of Broome County and to prevent illness and injuries caused by environmental factors. This division is charged with providing information on and the necessary enforcement of state and local health laws, codes and standards that apply to various facilities and systems.
The services performed by Environmental Health Services include the following:
- Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act (ATUPA)
- Bathing Beaches
- Campgrounds
- Caring for a Private Well
- Children's Camps
- Clean Indoor Air Act
- Emergency Response
- Environmental Assessments
- Food Safety
- Food Service Establishment Enforcement Actions
- Healthy Homes
- Insect-Borne Diseases
- Mobile Home Parks
- Public Health Nuisances
- Rabies Control
- Subdivisions
- Swimming Pools
- Tanning
- Tattooing Establishments Guidelines
- Temporary Residences
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water Supplies