Welcome To The Department of Public Works, City of New Haven, CT

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About the Department of Public Works

The Department of Public Works for the City of New Haven provides a variety of services for its citizens. Street sweeping, refuse collections, snow plowing, sidewalk maintenance, road maintenance, and drainage repairs highlight most of our daily activities. We also maintain over 50 bridges, (three movable), operate the city’s recycling program, perform eviction storage and collections, maintain public facilities, maintain most city vehicles, and enforce regulation and laws that effect the right of way. Listed below is the mission of each of these tasks. Details of how citizens can request special services or have questions concerning various programs are listed on following pages.

Mission: To provide effective maintenance management services for the City’s infrastructure associated with right of way, facilities, bridges, refuse collection, recycling, equipment, snow removal, and public property, as required by City ordinances and regulations.

To this end, the Department of Public Works focuses its efforts, through a variety of divisions, whose missions and efforts are to provide such services.

Administration – responds to public concern, supports operational divisions and maintains administrative records concerning the functions of the department.

Finance – maintains fiscal control and accounts associated with the department’s budget and mission requirements.

Operations – Insures the coordination and operational maintenance needs are effectively delivered on a daily basis.

Street Division: Provides daily delivery of services in support of maintaining the ROW through a variety of programs, such as street sweeping, bulk pick-up, drainage repairs, pavement repairs, sidewalk maintenance, snow removal and general cleanliness of the roads and sidewalks within the city.
Bridge Division: Provides for the safe and reliable operation of three movable bridges consistent with the Coast Guard regulations and maintains the New Haven bridge system, including fixed bridges for safe usage by vehicles and pedestrians.
Refuse Division: Provides for the efficient collection of household waste, including the collection of mixed solid waste, recyclables, and seasonal wastes, thereby promoting clean and healthy neighborhoods.
Recycling Division: Provides for the education and promotion of a recycling program within the city and establishes disposal or recycling outlets for a variety of waste streams, thus minimizing unnecessary MSW volumes.
Facilities: Provides for the efficient daily operation of city-owned facilities, including maintenance, capital investments, equipment use, asset management, utility optimization and security of public works and non-school government facilities as directed.
Equipment Maintenance: Provides for the efficient maintenance of all rolling stock and motorized equipment assigned to the department. Life cycle evaluations, replacement equipment, efficient fueling, yard safety, and environmental handling of all equipment and related support equipment, are examples of required responsibilities.
ROW Enforcement: Ensures that the uses of the ROW follow City Ordinances as it pertains to sidewalks, refuse collection, snow removal, signage, civil uses and safety.
Eviction Services: Provides for the collection and storage of personal goods processes through legal evictions and insures that the chain of custody is established in accordance with State and Local regulations and Laws.

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