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Welcome to What's In My Back Yard
WIMBY is a interactive mapping application with tools that allow users to identify potential health risk and quality of life features that might affect their quality of life, based on proximity to your home or other locations.
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Download the 2009 Annual Report. Check the archives for previous reports.
HEALTH ALERT: METH HOUSES UNFIT TO LIVE IN
Once police find a meth lab in a home, it can no longer be lived in until it has been properly cleaned and inspected. Please see the article below for the listing of dwellings unfit to live in located in Elkhart County.
There is more information located in the left margin under Environmental Health Services page.
HEALTH ALERT: Notice to Indiana Waste Transfer and Disposal Facilities.
Beginning January 1, 2011, Indiana state lasw prohits households, small businesses and public schools in Indiana from disposing of e-waste (electronic devices) in the regular trash. You can find a list of Indiana E-waste Collectors and Locations at www.in.gov/recycle/6411.htm. If you have questions please contact Ms. Kristin Brier in the Office of Pollution Prevention and Technical Assistance at (800) 988-7901 or
(317) 234-2754.
"Dedicated to a Healthful Life and Environment"
Elkhart County Health Department began in 1949. The first staff included a part time Health Commissioner, Public Health Nurses who visited in schools and homes, Sanitarians who inspected restaurants and dairy farms, plus Vital Record Clerks who kept birth and death records. Today the department consists of approximately 100 employees working in five divisions.
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