Lawrence County Health Department

Got Mold?

The Health Departments Environmental Health Service is committed to enhancing the quality of our environment promoting a safe and healthy community for the residents of Lawrence County and surrounding areas.  We seek to serve the needs of the rural community by providing essential environmental health services designed to ensure people can work, raise families, recreate, and grow without the threat of food borne, or vector borne disease and to protect and preserve environmental resources such as earth, water, air, fauna, and flora. We work to improve the health of our environment by promoting collaboration and education


 

For more information about the ways you can prevent and remove mold in your home, click on the picture of the house above to visit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website.

Knowledge Base

Mold is everywhere. However, too much mold in your home can cause many health effects for different people, like allergies, asthma, and even lung infections. The best ways to control mold in your home are to prevent it from growing, and to clean or remove it if it is found. Testing for mold is generally not recommended because there are no standards established for what the safe quantities of mold are for the various types of mold. Therefore, no matter what type of mold is found growing in your home, you should arrange for its removal.

For more information about the health effects from mold in your environment, click here to visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) website.

Environmental Health Services


Environmental healths areas of focus

  • A Food Protection Program that includes intensive food service manager training, food establishment plan review, regulatory inspections, site specific specialized employee training and required enforcement actions.
  • A Private Well Program that includes subdivision plan review, site feasibility studies, system design, regulatory inspections, sanitary surveys, and required enforcement actions.
  •  A General Environmental Program that includes liaison with federal, state and local government agencies, regulation of public swimming pools, tourist establishments, and the investigation of environmental complaints. Included with this element are many training courses offered to the public in subjects pertaining to environmental health.
  • Food Service Inspections and Permits
  • Water Well Inspections and Permits
  • Water testing
  • Septic System Inspections and Permits
  • Environmental Negligence reporting
  • Mosquito Control Through Vector Program
  • Referral Services

Some of What We provide:


Call us: 1-618-943-3302 

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Lawrence County Health Department 

Environmental Health Services
P. O. Box 516

11362 Country Club Rd

Lawrenceville, IL 62439
Phone: (618) 943-3302

Fax: (618) 943-7589

Hours of Operation

Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:00pm cst