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The Cincinnati Health Department helps improve and protect quality of life in our neighborhoods through a variety of programs, including:
  • Our food safety program issues licenses and inspects all facilities where food is served.
  • Enforcement of Ohio smoking ban in public places and places of employment.
  • Licensing and inspection of household sewage treatment systems, rabies prevention, animal-bite investigations, pest control, West Nile virus surveillance, and testing for water safety in commercial swimming pools and spas.
  • Our childhood lead poisoning prevention program monitors the screening of thousands of children and provides followup inspections, identification and removal of sources of lead poisoning.
  • Waste management programs including regulation, licensing and inspections of solid waste facilities, infectious waste generators such as hospitals and laboratories, tattoo and body- piercing facilities, and automotive scrap yards.Also, Ohio River sampling, regulation of open dumping, and junk car removal.
  • The litter and weed control program addresses high weeds and grass, junk piles in yards, other unhealthy and unsightly situations in neighborhoods.
  • Licensing and inspections of marinas, mobile home parks and campgrounds, tattoo and body piercing facilities.

Environmental Services Phone List

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

357-7420

Environmental Health Administration

357-7201

                Environmental East Office

352-2908

                Environmental West Office

564-1751

                Environmental Complaint Line

564-1751

                Food Illness/Poisoning Cases

564-1751

                Food Safety

564-1751

                Food Vending Machine Inspections

564-1751

                Garbage/Debris

564-1750

                Hazardous Materials

357-7212

                Hazardous Waste

564-1780

                Heat-Insufficient  

564-1751

                Litter Control

564-1751

                Litter/Weeds/Tall Grass

564-1750

                Plumbing, Leaking Sewers

564-1750

                Radiation Hazards

357-7212

                Rodents-Neighborhood Complaints

564-1751

                Septic Tank Inspections

352-2922

                Smoke-Free Ohio Complaint Hotline   

859-559-6446

                Solid Waste Unit

564-1780

                Technical Environmental

352-2922

                   Animal Bites

352-2922

                    Mosquitoes, Starlings and Bats

352-2922

                    Rodents, Sewer Baiting Complaints

352-2922

                    Swimming Pool Complaints

352-2922

                Swimming Pool and Spa  
                   Inspections/Permits

352-2922

                    Vector Control

352-2922

                     Vacant Buildings

564-1750

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