Public Works and Engineering

The Department of Public Works started 1997 with 66 employees and had 70 employees at the end of the year. In addition, approximately 25 summer temporaries were employed to help with lawn work, garden debris pick ups and other department functions. The department also made use of labor from the Sheriffs Department "Labor Assistance Program," workfare persons, people working on community service hours, high school seniors doing Senior Service projects in the spring before graduation, Earth Day volunteers, County "PIC" workers, and a high school student has been working in the DPW offices part-time under a work/study program. Major equipment purchased with 1997 funds include: Three pick-up trucks with snow plows, a stump cutter, a log splitter, and one heavy duty equipment trailer. The following major projects were undertaken by outside contractors, consultants, and our own DPW forces:

  1. Road Resurfacing of forty streets throughout the township.
  2. Road Resurfacing of Queen Anne Road with state aid funds.
  3. Safety pruning of street trees in the southeast section of the township.
  4. Continuing construction for the expansion of the Richard Rodda Community Center.
  5. 650 lineal feet of curb replacement completed on various streets.
  6. 171 tons of patching material was placed in potholes throughout the township.
  7. Awarded contract to plant 352 right-of-way shade trees during the fall of 1997, and 400 to be planted in the spring of 1998.
  8. Markings were placed on sidewalks in the northeast section of the township by the township consulting engineer, the first step in the current sidewalk replacement program.
  9. Construction started in the fall of 1997 for the rebuilding of the tennis courts at Hawthorne Park, with completion set for the spring of 1998.
  10. Awarded a contract to install a new air conditioning system at Fire Department Headquarters
  11. Completed the contract for the 1995 Community Development funded project for the rehabilitation of Mackel Park.
  12. Completed the contract for the 1996 Community Development funded project for the paving of three stub streets and the resurfacing of Tuxedo Square.
  13. Initiated the design for the 1997 Community Development funded project for the reconstruction of Robinson Street.
  14. Awarded service maintenance contract for the Police Building's HVAC system.
  15. Awarded contract and work was started on the exterior improvements and re-roofing of the Fire Headquarters Building.
The Garage forces performed preventive maintenance and repairs on 36 Police vehicles, 18 vehicles and 7 pieces of auxiliary equipment for the Fire Department, and 61 Public Works vehicles. In addition, they maintained 94 pieces of auxiliary equipment, 3 standby generators, I recreation department van, and I van for disabled senior citizens. Department forces continued park maintenance, dead tree removals, garden debris pickup, leaf pickup, recycling pickup, pothole patching, public buildings maintenance, and the myriad of other tasks required to keep the physical features of the town "working." The Department of Public Works always solicits the public's help in reporting potholes and dead trees The following are totals of recycled materials for 1997: Newspapers 964 tons Mixed Paper 1,474 tons Corrugated Boxes 404 tons Commingled Glass, Aluminum Cans, Tin Cans, Plastic Containers @4 tons Total @76 tons

RECYCLING DIVISION

The following are totals of recycled materials for 1997:

Newspapers

964 tons

Mixed Papers

1,399 tons

Corrugated Boxes

1,341 tons

Commingled Glass, Aluminum Cans, Tin Cans, Plastic Containers

892 tons

Total

4,892 tons

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