Green Township Death and Biohazard Cleanup

Who handles a death in the township

The Green Township Police Department has 62 sworn officers working from 6200 Harrison Avenue. In 2024 its patrol section answered more than 49,300 calls for service across a township of 60,424 people. Those officers secure a scene and call the Hamilton County Coroner when a death is sudden, unattended or unexplained.

The coroner's investigators now come from the county's newer Blue Ash building, opened in 2021. They release the person who died to a funeral home and then release the home. The township does not arrange or pay for cleaning, and neither does the coroner.

That job belongs to the property's owner or whoever has authority over it. For a house that was owned by the person who died, the executor appointed by Hamilton County Probate Court can sign the work order. For a condo, the association may need to approve access to shared hallways or garages.

A West Side place with long memories

Dent was once called Challensville; it took its current name in 1846, reportedly because the land dips just east of Harrison Pike. Veterans Park now sits on the old Dent Drive-In site, and the first Cincinnati-area McDonald's opened in Monfort Heights in 1959, where the Filet-O-Fish was created. Small facts like these are how neighbors here give directions.

Those landmarks are also useful when relatives who live elsewhere are trying to help. If family members are spread out, agree early on one person who will deal with the Green Township police, the insurer and the cleanup provider, so decisions and paperwork do not get lost between siblings.

I-74, Harrison Avenue and Bridgetown Road

I-74 passes through Monfort Heights, with Exit 14 at North Bend Road just south of the community's main crossroads at West Fork Road. Harrison Avenue carries traffic past the police station toward Dent. Bridgetown Road, part of OH 264, runs through the center of Bridgetown and on through Mack toward Cleves; heading east it becomes Glenway Avenue and continues into Price Hill.

Green Township borders Colerain Township to the north, Cincinnati to the east, Delhi Township to the south and Miami Township to the west. Mercy Health West Hospital, opened in 2013, sits within the township and is a landmark many callers use when giving directions.

If the house sits on a steep, shared or narrow driveway, or on a cul-de-sac with little curb space, say so when you call so the crew knows where to park a vehicle and stage materials at the Green Township address.

Bridgetown, Dent, Mack and the rest of 45248

Green Township has no downtown. The Census splits it into communities: Bridgetown in the center, Dent to the northwest, Mack to the west and southwest, Monfort Heights and White Oak to the northeast, and Covedale to the south. Mail for most of them reads Cincinnati, and the Postal Service also accepts Westwood, the name of the neighboring Cincinnati neighborhood, for ZIP 45248.

This page covers 45248, which includes Dent and the Green Township part of Mack. Neighboring parts of the township use other ZIPs, such as 45238 in Covedale and 45247 in White Oak, and those are covered on the Delhi and Colerain pages. Every part of the township is in Hamilton County and on the same 513 line.

West Side suburbs, mostly single-family

Bridgetown alone had 14,731 residents in 2020, and Dent, Mack and Monfort Heights each passed 11,000. Together they make Green Township larger than most Ohio cities, yet it is built almost entirely as suburban neighborhoods of single-family homes, with condominiums and apartment complexes along busier roads such as Harrison Avenue, Glenway Avenue and North Bend Road.

For cleanup in a Bridgetown or Dent home, ask what the floors and lower level are made of. A finished basement, a carpeted family room or a condo with shared ductwork changes what has to be removed and how the crew stops odor from moving into the rest of the building.