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Environmental Services
Forbes Shire Council’s Environmental Services Department is responsible for:
Environment
- Air quallity - odours, smoke and dust
- Noise - machinery, industrial
- Water pollution - Chemicals into storm and ground water, fish kills, lake monitoring
- Assess applications for commercial/land/agricultural use
- Complaints - Odour, noise, water
Public health
- Food shop inspections - 100 shops/resturants/hotels
- Vector control -chickens/mosquito/Ross River Fever
- Swimming pool - public pools and compliance with microbial control
- Air Conditioning - Legionella
- Septic Tanks
- Emergency Management - fire/flood/storm (assist Department of Health)
- Skin penetration and beauty shop inspections - incl. hairdressers/ beauticians/tattooing/body piercing
- Complaints - Untidy premises/rubbish etc
Waste collection
- Collection of household, industrial and commercial wastes
- Daroobalgie
- Village tips comprising of Ootha, Warroo, Garema, Wirrinya & Bedgerebong
Animal control
- Ensuring compliance with the Companion Animal Act and registration of companion animals
- Services of Impounding Officer/Pound Keeper
- Destruction of animals
- Barking dogs
- Straying stock
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