As of November 17, 2022, all Board of Health permit applications, including restaurants, summer camp operators, septic designers, tobacco, body art and more, will be available on-line through our new permitting service, PermitEyes. Click below link to get started!–

https://fctpermit.com/sites/alliance/boh/user_logins.asp 

On October 3, 2022, the Dalton Board of Health voted to adopt regulations pertaining to Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products with an effective date of February 1, 2023. The updated regulations can be viewed by clicking the below link.
Restricting the Sale of Tobacco Products

Local boards of health in Massachusetts are empowered by state law to perform many crucial and important duties relative to the protection of the public health, control of disease, promotion of sanitary living conditions and the protection of the environment from pollution. This includes performing restaurant, public pool and housing inspections as well as reviewing plans for private wells and septic systems and investigating nuisance complaints. Enforcement of state and local regulations regarding residential camps, refuse hauling, tobacco sales and body art establishments are also required.

The Dalton Board of Health conducts their monthly meetings in-person with an option to participate via Zoom every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 4:30PM.  These meetings remain open to the public and will be posted as required by law on https://www.mytowngovernment.org/01226.

Summer has Arrived! Learn More About How to Protect Yourself and Others From Heat Here:

View or download the Heat Education Tool Kit here.

The Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health (BCEH), in collaboration with the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Management (OPEM) and the Office of Local and Regional Health (OLRH), is excited to announce the launch of the Heat Education and Alert Tools (HEAT) response. This initiative aims to increase awareness of climate change and extreme heat, enhance preparedness for extreme heat events, and improve our collective response to these health hazards. The initiative will use the new CDC/NOAA  NWS HeatRisk Tool to provide timely and accurate extreme heat forecast information. Unlike other alert systems, the new CDC/NOAA tool synthesizes health, heat, socio-demographic, and natural/built environment data to forecast community heat risk. View or download the Heat Education Tool Kit here.

*The Board of Health has bottles for water testing available upon request*