Environmental Health

About Us

Environmental Health supports and enforces the Riley County Sanitary Code (pdf) through education, evaluation, permits and inspection. The sanitary code establishes standards to eliminate and/or prevent the development of environmental conditions that are hazardous to health and safety, and promotes the economical and planned development of the land and water resources for the county.

Services

• oversees private water well installation
• provides private water well testing
• oversees private wastewater disposal system installation
  • Alternative System
  • Lagoon
  • Standard System
• oversees private wastewater disposal system repair
• licenses wastewater disposal installers (pdf)
• licenses wastewater disposal haulers (pdf)
• provides recommendations on septic system and lateral field care
• performs sale of property environmental evaluations