Environmental Health Specialists offer several different services while you build or revamp your property. Read below to learn more about the services we offer and contact us here if you have any questions.
See the latest fee schedule here.
Questions to ask before buying property to build a home.
Septic Installer Education Class
If you were not able to attend the annual Septic Installer Education Class or cannot attend a class in a different health district, you may earn your CEUs by reviewing the class materials and completing an online quiz.
Instructions:
Click on the link below to access the class presentations and review each of the presentations. If you are a basic installer, you do not need to review the complex section. Once you have reviewed the materials, click on the corresponding quiz link below to complete your quiz. If you are successful in passing the quiz, we will mail you or email you a copy of your completion certificate.
If you have any questions, please call 208-737-5916.
Septic Installer Class Presentations Google Drive
Septic Installer Quizzes
Basic Installer Education Class Quiz
Complex Installer Education Class Quiz
Special Note: If you are taking the Complex Installer Quiz, you do not need to take the Basic Installer Quiz.
Septic systems: inspections and permits
Environmental Health Specialists review applications and issue permits for new and repaired subsurface sewage disposal systems (septic tanks). South Central Public Health District also provides education, testing, and licensing for subsurface sewage installers.
Subsurface Sewage Permit Application
Proposal Review for Planning & Zoning
More links, handouts and forms.
Sewage Disposal
Environmental Health Specialists review applications and issue permits for new installations, enlargements, and replacement subsurface sewage disposal systems. South Central Public Health District also provides education, testing, and licensing for subsurface sewage installers. Lists of installers and pumpers are provided as a public service, but SCPHD does not make recommendation or guarantee any of the contractors on the list. We suggest you thoroughly research a firm's qualifications and history before contracting with them.
Solid Waste
South Central Public Health District is responsible for licensing and inspection of municipal solid waste facilities and transfer stations. We also provide technical assistance for these facilities when throwing away miscellaneous products.
Subdivisions
Environmental Health Specialists review applications, provide consultations and site review services to help remove sanitary restrictions on subdivisions. For more information, contact an Environmental Health Specialist in your local South Central Public Health District office.
Site Evaluation
Home buyers, banks and other lending institutions may request an inspection of the existing well and subsurface sewage system construction, setbacks, and water quality as a condition of the sell or refinance of a property. Environmental Health Specialists will conduct this inspection, take appropriate water samples, and submit an “as is” report to the requester. If there is a water quality issue, the EHS will consult with the requester about procedures to remedy the problem.