Belmont County Health Board Sets Environmental Fee Schedule for 2019
The Belmont County Board of Health on Monday approved its 2019 schedule of environmental fees.
The new environmental fees take effect Jan. 1. The fees for various permits cover sewage-related services, private water systems, recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds, temporary camps, public swimming pools and spas, food service operations and retail food establishments, body art and body piercing, garbage and refuse vehicle inspection, resident housing camps, water haulers and inspection.
The fee for a food service operations or retail food establishment is $28. The vending fee is $6. The licensing period runs from March 1 to Feb. 28, 2020.
An establishment conducting combined body art and body piercing services is charged $500. The fee for tattooing services is $250, while the fee for body piercing services also is $250.
A fee of $510 is to be charged for inspection of a recreational vehicle park or campground. The licensing period runs from April 30 to May 1, 2020.
The fee for a temporary camp, in operation no more than seven consecutive days, is $190 per event. Operation of a resident housing camp carries a fee of $75.
A licensing fee of $430 is charged for the first public swimming pool or spa, while the fee is $405 for a second pool or spa. The fee is $280 for a government tax-supported pool and $255 for each additional pool. The licensing period for these facilities begins April 30 and ends May 31, 2020.
Fees for private water systems range from $50 for sealing of a system up to $469 for construction of a new system for a non-single family dwelling.
Total sewage fees include: site review application, $250; permit for installation of new or replacement system, $374; permit for alteration of existing system, $285; operation, $50; installer registration, $200; service provider, $100; septage hauler, $150; septage vehicle permit, $50 per truck; inspection, $104; abandonment, $50; variance, $50; collection and examination of water samples, $104 plus lab fees; site review and evaluation of septage land application, $310; subdivision and lot review, $150 plus $50 for each additional lot; septic evaluation, $250; septic re-evaluation, $125, and septic design, $455.
Garbage and refuse vehicle inspection fees are $65 for the first truck and $40 for each additional truck. The fee for water hauler and inspection is $90 for each truck.
Board president Dwight Jenewein abstained from the vote because he owns a restaurant that is subject to the food service fee. Board members Joel Braido, Dr. Renato DelaCruz, Elizabeth Glick, James King and Irene Louda voted for the proposed fee structure.
Meanwhile, Rich Lucas, director of environmental health, said the health department did well on a state survey of private water systems.
In other matters, Linda Mehl, director of nursing, said the county’s Women, Infants and Children nutrition program has exceeded its goal for participation this year.
“The WIC numbers are up … That’s the good news,” she said.
Currently, the WIC program has 984 cases, above a goal of 968 for its assigned caseload, Mehl said.
Dr. George L. Cholak, county health commissioner, said two births and 50 deaths occurred in Belmont County in November. To date, he said there have been 10 births and 645 deaths in the county this year.
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