PLEASANT PRAIRIE'S PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT - AN OVERVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS THEY PERFORM
The Pleasant Prairie Public Works Department employs about 32 full-time, 14 part-time, and 18 seasonal part-time employees over the course of a year. The department provides nine separate services in the Village: streets/highway, water, sewer, clean water (storm water management), solid waste, parks, technical support/fleet management, construction management, and clerical/customer service.
Members of the department are responsible for maintaining $133,409,871 (book value) worth of infrastructure in the following areas:
Water Utility $40,542,738.09
Sewer Utility $48,939,217.01
Storm Sewer $20,981,440.87
Roads $22,764,701.68
Solid Waste (Compost Site) $181,773.41
Some of the specific tasks that public works crews perform in a given year include:
• evaluate and rate Village roads annually,
• perform road maintenance and repair,
• make and maintain Village owned street signs,
• salt and plow Village owned roadways (winter weather),
• perform daily/weekly garbage/recycling collection,
• perform seasonal leaf collection,
• operate the compost site and special collections,
• maintain, repair and construct water, sewer and storm water infrastructure,
• plant, mow, and maintain Village parks,
• respond to resident questions regarding services,
• maintain the Village fleet and tools used to provide services (vehicles, large equipment, etc),
• perform comprehensive reporting functions for each service provided by the department,
• manage construction projects for roads, water, sewer, storm water and special projects,
• coordinate projects with local Eagle Scouts, and
• respond to large scale emergencies (such as severe weather events) with the skills and equipment to begin restoring the Village to normal.
Pleasant Prairie’s Public Works staff cross trains in various areas in order to create efficiencies and to better respond to the changing demands associated with the services that they provide.