Public Swimming Pool and Spa Registration
All public swimming pools must be registered with the Subsurface Wastewater Program, including those associated with day care facilities.
When submitting an application for review of a public swimming pool to the Division of Environmental Health, the applicant and/or designer must include the following for a complete application:
Updated Influenza Submission and Reporting Guidance
The 2024-2025 influenza season has been particularly active. Health care facilities are seeing an increased number of individuals for testing, which is resulting in a dramatic increase in test specimens sent to Maine's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory (HETL) for subtyping and reported to the Maine CDC. To reduce the testing volume at HETL, the Maine CDC is making changes to submission and reporting requests.
Ebola Outbreak Caused by Sudan virus in Uganda
Please review this information from the U.S. CDC on the Ebola outbreak caused by Sudan virus (Orthoebolavirus sudanense) in Uganda and the federal response to it. As of February 10, 2025, there are no known cases of Ebola in Maine or elsewhere in the United States.