Clark County is in the early stages of a busy construction season, with plans to award 22 contracts for an estimated $33.68 million in projects.
Last year, the county paid $18.25 million to private contractors to build or improve transportation, park and stormwater facilities. Public Works also secured $16.2 million in state and federal transportation grants to stretch local dollars in building additional projects.
The theme for National Public Works Week, held May 17-23, was “Community Begins Here.” The following statistics illustrate a small portion of community service provided by the county’s Public Works programs and operations:
- Handled more than 3,000 calls for maintenance, including nearly 1,000 incidents with crews dispatched to immediate hazards.
- Fueled and maintained more than 700 vehicles, including police cars, light- and heavy-duty trucks and construction equipment that traveled nearly 4 million miles.
- Inspected more than 1,700 public and private stormwater facilities.
- Mowed grass, weeds and other vegetation along nearly 2,900 miles of county roads.
- Coordinated volunteers who worked 16,800 hours on parks, trails and roadsides.
- Pruned, planted or replaced more than 3,000 trees in parks and other county properties.
- Installed or upgraded 30 traffic signals and made more than 1,600 visits to maintain signals.
- Reviewed engineering plans for streets and stormwater facilities valued at more than $10 million that private developers built and transferred to the county.
- Produced more than 14,000 tons of organic material applied to farmland from sewage treatment at the Salmon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
- Plowed and deiced nearly 11,800 miles of county roads, all in February 2014 during the biggest winter storm in more than five years.
