Sewer Maintenance & Street Cleaning

Supervisor:  Kevin Sylvester

This department handles citizen requests as listed below:

• Sewage and water back-ups into homes and basements
• Sewer smells
• Flooded streets
• Collapsed sewer lines
• Catchbasins and storm sewers needing cleaned or repaired
• Rattling manhole lids or ones that pop off
• Sweeping of all city streets and city parking lots
• Miscellaneous concrete work
• Snow & ice removal

The Street Cleaning Department has 2 employees for the day shift and 1 for the night.  They are responsible for sweeping and flushing approximately 70 miles of streets and twelve parking lots.  Their goal is to clean the city streets at least four times a year.  The sweepers pick up between 6 to 14 tons of dirt everyday, including special requests to pick up debris that has been dumped on our streets such as trash, glass, and various household items.

The Sewer Maintenance Department has 5 employees who are responsible for the cleaning and repair of approximately 150 miles of storm water and sanitary sewer lines.  They also clean, repair and reconstruct catchbasins which average 3 to a city block.  Many problems for the home owners are caused by grass clippings and leaves being put in the street which clog the catchbasins and get into the sewers.

These departments get an average of 321 requests a year with a 98% completion rate.