The Environmental Health Services (EHS) unit administers a number of programs and services to help protect health through the promotion of environmentally sound practices. Specifically, EHS:

• Licenses and inspects food service establishments, investigates foodborne illness outbreaks and conducts food safety education classes
• Issues permits for on-site sewage disposal systems and evaluates subdivisions and condominium developments
• Provides testing options, information, and consultation for lead, mercury, and radon concerns in residential housing.
• Issues permits for on-site water systems, licenses public swimming pools and conducts water testing for drinking, swimming pools, and public beaches
• Inspects daycare centers, foster homes, group homes, and campgrounds
• Issues permits for body art practitioners
• Evaluates rodent and insect complaints
• Investigates infectious diseases outbreaks

Fees

All credit and debit card transactions will now include a 3.5% transaction fee and electronic checks will include a $2.50 charge per order. 

• 2025 Environmental Health Fee Schedule

Resources

• Environmental Health Services List
• Oakland County Health Division Sanitary Code
• Oakland County Sanitary Code Article III (Approved August 2016)

File a Complaint

To file a complaint, use the link on our Accela Citizen Access page (log-in not required), call or email:

Pontiac: 248-858-1312

Southfield: 248-424-7191

Email: health@oakgov.com

File an Illness Complaint

To file an illness complaint, please call or email the Communicable Disease Unit, or initiate your complaint intake on our Accela Citizen Access page. Note that illness complaints require completion of an illness intake questionnaire, including a three-day food history. If initiating your complaint online, you will be contacted by our Communicable Disease Unit via email for more information. Please be sure to include your email.

Communicable Disease Unit
248-858-1286
OCHDIllnessComplaints@oakgov.com

Online Services

We encourage the use of Google Chrome for online Environmental Health applications and services. Please allow pop-ups.

• Food Safety (including Food Service Licensing)
• Onsite Sewage Disposal System (Septic)
• Well and Water Services