Carson City Public Works celebrates National Public Works Week
Submitted by editor on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 4:14pm
The American Public Works Association has annually celebrated National Public Works Week since 1960. This week public works professionals throughout the nation, including Carson City, are being honored for the vital services they provide.
All divisions of Carson City Public Works gathered together Wednesday to celebrate the new flagpole in front of the Public Works’ facility and salute the American flag as it was being raised. “A symbol of our nation now welcomes guests to our facility; this gift represents the importance of public works’ professionals nationwide” said Darren Schulz, Director of Carson City Public Works, at the morning ceremony.
This year’s theme accurately exemplifies the power of public works by drawing attention to the many supportive roles our professionals embrace. Public works is at the forefront of every torrential downpour, mitigating flood risk and protecting property. During heavy snowfall, crews are out plowing the streets day and night; even placing salt brine down before the storm to reduce slick roads.
The power of public works is in every major infrastructure project, aimed to help improve our citizens’ health, safety, comfort and quality of life. In addition, having clean water, disposing solid waste, safe transportation and preplanned disaster management are all vital services that make Carson City Public Works such an important City component.
These services could not be provided without the amazing men and women who represent Carson City Public Works and are responsible for rebuilding, improving and protecting our transportation, water supply, water treatment and solid waste systems, public buildings, and other structures and facilities essential for our citizens.
This week, Mayor Bob Crowell proclaimed as National Public Works Week, May 20-26, 2018. This week and every week, be sure to thank your public works professionals, engineers, managers and employees and recognize the substantial contributions they make to our community’s health, safety, and quality of life. #CarsonProud #NationalPublicWorksWeek #PublicWorks #NPWW
Carson City Public Works is comprised of multiple divisions including the operations divisions of Streets, Water, Sewer, Storm Water, Wastewater, Environmental and Landfill. It also includes the Engineering Division that oversees all Capital Projects; the Transportation Division, which includes RTC, JAC, and CAMPO; and the Utility Billing Division.
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