This division is responsible for the street and drainage system, construction and maintenance projects and assists in the maintenance of the City’s lakes and environmental programs. The infrastructure inventory consists of roughly 667 miles of paved City streets and alleys, over 250 miles of sidewalks, as well as a City-wide storm drainage system that includes approximately 160 miles of underground storm sewer pipe, over 60 miles of ditches, approximately 8,000 storm inlets, 170 detention/retention ponds, 419 outfall structures, and 10 City-maintained lakes.

Street sweeping is an important tool to keep debris and trash from entering our lakes.  We operate six state-of-the art street sweepers.  On average, these street sweepers clean over 13,000 miles of curbed streets and collect approximately 2,265 tons of materials every year that would otherwise end up in the lakes. Street sweepers are designed to remove trash and debris from City streets and help prevent pollution from entering our lakes which supports the notion that “Every Curb Is a Shoreline”.   Our goal is to sweep each curbed street with in the city twice a month.