Public Works
Public Works provides the City of Santa Cruz with a variety of services including engineering design, traffic engineering and maintenance, storm water management, street maintenance, resource recovery management, waste reduction programs, wastewater system management, flood control and parking control. View a 2020 tribute to our team from then-Vice Mayor Donna Meyers:
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Divisions
Engineering Division provides engineering design services and construction supervision, city surveying, maintenance of maps and records, special assessment district administration, and all other basic engineering inspections and services.
Resource Recovery Operations includes Resource Recovery Collection which is responsible for refuse and recycling collection, street sweeping, and curbside recycling programs; and the Resource Recovery Facility, responsible for the processing of recycled materials, household hazardous waste, and the operation and maintenance of the landfill.
Operations: Fleet, Facilities, Homelessness Response, and Streets. The latter is responsible for constructing and maintaining City streets, sidewalks, and storm drains and flood control management duties, and traffic maintenance which maintains street markings, street signs, street lights, and traffic signals.
Transportation Engineering and Parking Division performs traffic engineering studies and projects, operates all downtown parking facilities, the wharf gate, and parking control.
Wastewater Treatment Facility Division maintains and operates the Wastewater Treatment Facility and Wastewater and Storm Water Collections, responsible for operating and maintaining City wastewater pump station facilities, all wastewater collection lines and manholes in the wastewater system.
Spotlight
We are proud that our City Environmental Laboratory was one of 16 laboratories across the country selected for USEPA and NIST's successful validation testing in the development of a standard to improve pollution measurements in recreational waters. This new "NIST SRM 2917" can also be used to support stormwater management, food production monitoring, wastewater surveillance and outbreak exposure route identification. This successful work has been accepted for publication in the foremost technical journal for water research
Wastewater SCAN Dashboard of SARS-CoV-2
Through community wastewater partnerships, see SARS-CoV-2 levels for Santa Cruz and other communities.