Public Works Department

Mission:

The Bondurant Public Works Department is dedicated to enhancing the safety, convenience, and aesthetics of the city's infrastructure. Through collaborative efforts and innovative projects, the department strives to provide Bondurant residents with improved quality of life and enhanced connectivity.

The Public Works Department is visible to the public daily providing services in the park system, on the roadways, and in public facilities, and working with the community to ensure compliance with city codes. Services include:

• Maintaining the City’s roads and alleys, including pothole filling, joint sealing, curb repair, snow and ice control, grading, treating, and application of the material.
• Participating in planning efforts for the city’s future roadways, sewer, water, stormwater, parks, and trail infrastructure.
• Traffic signals operations and maintenance, street/parking lot painting, sign maintenance, fiber network maintenance, and One-Call locates for signal/fiber network cables.
• Routine maintenance and inspection of the pump station, sanitary sewers, and storm sewer, including cleaning and televising sewers.
• Cleaning all of the paved roadways and catch basins within the city limits of Bondurant.
• Mowing, trimming trees and brush, treating unimproved roads to reduce dust, mosquito control, and other nuisances.
• Maintain the health and well-being of the city facilities and the safety of the occupants and visitors that use these facilities daily.
• Coordinates equipment and vehicles' maintenance, repair, purchase, and disposal.
• Mowing/vegetation management, grounds patrol/pick up, safety inspections, equipment upkeep and repair of parks, open spaces, greenbelts, ponds/lakes, playgrounds, shelters, sports courts/fields, special events, trails, and natural resource areas.
• Periodic assessment and maintenance of all public trees, including those on public right-of-way and median, within maintained areas of parks, in Bondurant Cemetery, and along city trails.
• Oversees all right-of-way tree planting and removal permits.
• Manages all utilities in the public right-of-way, handling locates and processing Right-of-way permits.
• Provides policy and procedural direction as well as addressing personnel, payroll, budget, and support issues; and
• Enforcement of certain nuisance codes, including junk cars, auto parts stored outside on private property, vehicles parked on unpaved surfaces, junk and debris in yards, weed and/or grass growing to a height of 10” or more, snow and ice removal from sidewalks, and sidewalk defects.

For more information about the specific services that Public Works provide, reference the links to the left. 

Find more information on the Public Works Dashboard. 

For sanitary sewer or water emergencies contact Pat Collison at 515-971-6856.