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Health Hazards

The Oneida County Health Department (OCHD) is responsible for assessing, managing, controlling and preventing environmental factors that may adversely affect the health, comfort, safety or well-being of the community.

Our goal is to:

  • Protect the health of inhabitants of Oneida County, and to provide technical assistance and education to the public.
  • Resolve health hazards that are not regulated by other governmental agencies.

If you would like to report a health hazard to the us, please call 715-369-6111.

 *If this complaint is in regards to a rental property, please make sure you have formally contacted the property owner and made them aware of the situation.  You must give them a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before the health department steps in.

Once you contact OCHD with a health hazard complaint, the following will occur:

  1. One of our intake staff will receive your complaint and forward it on to our Assistant Director to assign someone to investigate your case.
  2. Someone will then contact you or the property owner to initiate investigation.
  3. During the investigation OCHD staff will do an initial property visit where they will take pictures as documentation of the potential health hazard.
  4. Once the property visit is completed, OCHD will review pictures and other documentation provided with our Health Officer to determine if a health hazard exists according to Chapter 11.13.
    1. If OCHD staff determines a health hazard does not exist, they will notify property owner via certified mailing that the complaint is unsubstantiated and the case is closed.
    2. If OCHD staff determines health hazard does exist, they will notify property owner via certified mailing with the results of the inspection and why the situation is a health hazard, a timeline of abatement and what needs to be done to the property to comply with abatement.
      1. Once abatement has been completed, OCHD staff will complete a follow up property visit where they will take pictures as documentation of the abatement and review with Health Officer.
      2. If abatement has been completed successfully, OCHD staff will notify owner via certified mailing that the case has been closed.
      3. If abatement has not been completed, OCHD staff will notify property owner via certified mailing that OCHD still believes a health hazard exists at the property, a timeline of abatement and what needs to be done to property to comply with abatement.
      4. This process will continue until health hazard is properly resolved.  If property owner is not compliant with abatement notice, the Health Officer can take formal action by issuing a citation.

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