Environmental Health helps to protect the health of the citizens of Monongalia County by regulating the food, water, land, public spaces and businesses of Monongalia County.
If you’ve eaten in a restaurant or gotten take-out, gone swimming in a pool, stayed in a hotel, attended school, gotten a tattoo or body piercing or eaten a hamburger at a fair or a football game, MCHD Environmental Health sanitarians have conducted an inspection of the facility as we continue to keep our community safe.

All Program Services
- Bake Sales & Non-Profit Organizations
- Campground Inspections
- Clean Indoor Air
- Disaster Sanitation
- Farmers Market Vendor Inspections
- Food
- Food Safety
- Food Safety Training
- Food and Retail Establishment Permits
- Housing and Institutions
- Mobile Food Units
- Pools
- Rabies Control
- Radon
- Recreation
- Septic and Wells
- Tanning
- Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio Inspections
- Temporary Food Worker Cards
- Vector Control – Ticks, Mosquitoes, etc.
- Vending Machines
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News & Announcements
Got diarrhea? Don't swim!
Environmental HealthMay. 24, 2023 - By Mary Wade Burnside “Let’s grill out.” “Surf’s up!” “Where are you going on vacation?” Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer. And while m...
Continue Reading →Ticks in January? They're out there.
Environmental HealthJan. 30, 2023 - By Mary Wade Burnside Ed Michael, a retired West Virginia University wildlife ecology professor, was staying at his Tucker County cabin at the first of the yea...
Continue Reading →Do you live in a radon zone? MCHD can help you find out.
Environmental HealthJan. 18, 2023 - By Mary Wade Burnside In the United States, 1 in 15 homes have high levels of radon, but here in Monongalia County, that number is 1 in 5. Monongalia County He...
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