Public Works

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Public Works Department

133 employees

Highway Division

250 miles of roadways
200 miles of surface/sub-surface drainage
12,200 catchbasin/manhole covers
600 brainage outfalls
400 street excavations
550 lane miles of public roadways
22 municipal parking facilities
115 miles of sidewalk

Water Division

75,000 meter reads per year
17,000 residential and commercial accounts
8-10 million gallons a day
complicated system of pumps
250 miles of conduit
2000 fire hydrants
22,000 meters
4,800 gate valves
16,000 water meters
4 pumping stations
2 booster station
6 above ground water tanks (total of nine million gallon capacity)

Sewer Division

17,000 residential and commercial accounts
226 miles of gravity sewer mains
18 miles of sewer force mains
51 sewer pumping stations
6,600 man holes
40 miles of cross country easements

Sanitation Division

18,652 dwellings (3,700 a day)

Public Works Department
133 employees
Highway Division
250 miles of roadways 200 miles of surface/sub-surface drainage 12,200 catchbasin/manhole covers 600 brainage outfalls 400 street excavations 550 lane miles of public roadways 22 municipal parking facilities 115 miles of sidewalk
Water Division
75,000 meter reads per year 17,000 residential and commercial accounts 8-10 million gallons a day complicated system of pumps 250 miles of conduit 2000 fire hydrants 22,000 meters 4,800 gate valves 16,000 water meters 4 pumping stations 2 booster station 6 above ground water tanks (total of nine million gallon capacity)
Sewer Division
17,000 residential and commercial accounts 226 miles of gravity sewer mains 18 miles of sewer force mains 51 sewer pumping stations 6,600 man holes 40 miles of cross country easements
Sanitation Division
18,652 dwellings (3,700 a day)

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