California Travel Tips
Unsung Heroes-Your City’s Public Works
Published on: May 24, 2014
By C. MacDonald
Today concludes National Public Works Week and there’s no more important and unsung city department than Public Works. It’s the one you don’t think about unless something goes wrong. It helps you drive safely, drink safe water and so much more. It works to protect you 365 days a year.
What public works does for a typical city of 200,000 in California:
- Public Works tests water quality more than 30,000 times a year
- Maintains 360 miles of sewer lines and 29 lift stations which pump 9.5 million gallons of sewage daily
- Deliver 9.5 billion gallons of water through 626 miles of pipe
- Maintain 143 signalized intersections
- Maintain 3,765 park, parking lot and street lights
- Maintain all city vehicles and buildings (from Civic Center, the Fire Stations and Libraries to the Recreation facilities)
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