Calhoun County
Calhoun County Health Department (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District)
In short
Calhoun County Health Department (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District) issues 3 permits we publish for Calhoun County, last verified 2026-10-09. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onsite Sewage (Septic) System Permit to Install or Repaironly if it applies to you | Calhoun County Health Department (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District) | The Calhoun County Health Department's Environmental Services page lists onsite sewage applications and permits but prints no fee, and ADPH Rule 420-3-1-.12(3) states that 'ADPH or the LHD may assess a fee where fee authorization exists'. Call the Calhoun County Environmental Department at (256) 237-4324 for the amount due. | issued per installation or repair of an onsite sewage system | 2026-10-09 |
| Grease Trap Requirement and Permit (Onsite Sewage Sites)only if it applies to you | Calhoun County Health Department (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District) | The Calhoun County Health Department's Environmental Services page lists grease trap permits but prints no fee, and ADPH Rule 420-3-1-.12(3) states that 'ADPH or the LHD may assess a fee where fee authorization exists'. Call the Calhoun County Environmental Department at (256) 237-4324 for the amount due. | issued per grease trap installation with the onsite sewage permit | 2026-10-09 |
| Food Service Establishment Health Permit | Calhoun County Health Department (Alabama Department of Public Health, Northeastern District) | The Calhoun County Health Department, an Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) Northeastern District field office, requires an annual food service permit for every restaurant, coffee shop, food truck and food-serving childcare facility, but no dollar fee for that permit has ever been published on the department's own site or archived anywhere online. A fee-schedule page exists for the neighboring Etowah County Health Department, within the same ADPH district, but each county department in the district sets and publishes its own schedule rather than sharing a district-wide figure, so Etowah's amounts do not apply to Calhoun. Call the Calhoun County Health Department, Environmental Services, at (256) 237-4324 to get the current fee before applying. | annual, permits expire September 30 | 2026-09-28 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Onsite Sewage (Septic) System Permit to Install or Repair
ADPH Rule 420-3-1-.05(1) states that no person shall occupy, rent, lease, sell, possess, or allow a building to be occupied as a dwelling or establishment unless it has an approved sewage disposal system, and Rule 420-3-1-.06(1) states that no person shall begin installing or repairing an onsite sewage system, or any component, until a valid Permit to Install (Repair) has been issued by the local health department. The Calhoun County Health Department (an ADPH Northeastern District office; Environmental Department (256) 237-4324) lists 'Onsite Sewage Application and Permits, Septic Tanks, and Grease Trap Permits' and 'Small and Large Flow Development Permits' among its services on its Environmental Services page (last updated August 20, 2025). The page prints no fee. The permit applies only where the business premises are served by a septic or other onsite system rather than a public sewer; a business connected to a city or utility sewer has no onsite sewage permit.
Grease Trap Requirement and Permit (Onsite Sewage Sites)
ADPH Rule 420-3-1-.22(1), part of the onsite sewage rules, states that any establishment using commercial kitchen equipment shall install a grease trap complying with Rule 420-3-1-.17, unless the local health department determines that the establishment produces little grease waste; the trap must sit outside the building where it can be inspected, pumped and maintained. The Calhoun County Health Department's Environmental Services page (last updated August 20, 2025; (256) 237-4324) lists 'Grease Trap Permits' with its onsite sewage permits. Because the rule is part of the onsite sewage chapter, it applies to a restaurant, coffee shop or childcare kitchen with commercial kitchen equipment on a site served by an onsite sewage system. The page prints no fee.
Food Service Establishment Health Permit
A restaurant, coffee shop, food truck or childcare facility that prepares or serves food in Calhoun County needs an annual food service permit from the Calhoun County Health Department, which operates as a plain Alabama Department of Public Health field office under the agency's Northeastern District, not as an independently run county health department like Jefferson's or Mobile's. Inspections use ADPH's standard 100-point scoring: an establishment scoring 85 or above is reinspected within 120 days, and one scoring below 85 is reinspected within 60 days; permits expire every September 30. The department has never published a dollar fee for this permit on its own site, and Wayback Machine's archive index confirms no fee-schedule page has ever existed for Calhoun at that address, unlike some neighboring ADPH-district counties that do publish their own schedules. Call the department's Environmental Services line, (256) 237-4324, to get the figure currently charged before applying. A separate site, calhouncountyhealth.net, appears in general searches for a Calhoun County health department but belongs to Calhoun County, Illinois, and has no connection to this Alabama county or its permit.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Calhoun County
- Phone
- 256-237-4324
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Ala. Admin. Code Chapter 420-3-1, Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal (rules .05, .06, .12, .22)Alabama Department of Public Health (Alabama Administrative Code) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
- Alabama Department of Public Health, Calhoun County Environmental Services (food service permitting)Alabama Department of Public Health · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Code of Alabama §45-8-171.20, Board of Health — sliding-scale fee-setting authority onlyJustia (Code of Alabama) · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
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