RULESContaminant Management Rules
Panhandle Health District's Environmental Health Code (click here) is based on the recognition that pollution of the air, land and waters of this district consitutues a menace to public health and welfare, creates public nuisances, is harmful to wildlife, fish and other aquatic life, and impairs domestic, agricultural, industrial, recreational and other beneficial uses of air, land and water.
It is the duty of the Board of Health to establish the quality standards of the environment in the interest of health, individual and community alike, and to prevent the outbreak and spread of dangerous and infectious disease.