City of Lamar Public Works Week 2024 Highlights

Description: Prowers Economic Prosperity is aligning with the City to bring additional aviation and freight-related businesses to the Southeast Colorado Regional Airport in Lamar. (Courtesy Photo)

The City of Lamar is currently celebrating Public Works Week on May 19-25, 2024.

The City’s Public Works professionals provide essential services that lead to healthier, happier, more vibrant communities.

Over 50 City of Lamar Public Works professionals advance our quality of life by providing an infrastructure of services in building maintenance, equipment/fleet maintenance, streets, sanitation, water/wastewater, and Southeast Colorado Airport. They provide the backbone of the City’s services to its residents. Join us in celebrating the quiet work these professionals do that makes life better for all of us. In Lamar, Public Works includes:

Building Maintenance

A small but skilled Maintenance staff provides custodial and/or equipment services for the City’s 13 municipal buildings. This includes day-to-day maintenance and small repairs and supervising larger contracted work. In addition to regular work, crews perform scheduled monthly and extended maintenance and building improvements. Custodians also maintain grounds immediately adjacent to buildings as part of their work.

Equipment/Fleet Maintenance

Maintaining all City vehicles and equipment, our Fleet Maintenance staff is a valuable part of Public Works. They repair all fleet vehicles including all emergency vehicles, snow plows, and trash trucks and maintain other City equipment. Fleet Maintenance handles all of the preventative and repair functions to make sure that our equipment and vehicles serve our community as faithfully as our staff does. Effective maintenance means less cost to our citizens due to early replacement.

Streets

Street Department employees keep Lamar’s roadways safe and clear, so citizens to get to hospitals, stores, work, school etc. safely. In the summer, they work endlessly on overlaying and crack filling roads. Street Department employees can be called out at any hour, rain, snow, or shine. They clear storm drains to prevent flooding, plow snow, and lay sand down during snow storms for added traction. This crew also cleans up on yards when properties are issued citations by Code Enforcement officers, helping to keep the neighborhoods clean and safe. The Street Department also assist other City functions when they are in need.

Sanitation

The City of Lamar runs the East Lamar Landfill and is permitted by the State of Colorado. The Sanitation crew works the scale tracking of what we intake and compacts all the trash brought in. The Sanitation crew includes the two trash truck drivers who run a specific route every day but Sunday. The truck drivers work hard to make sure all trash tubs are emptied to keep our community clean and healthy. Sanitation also provides the community with roll-off services to assist companies/residents with projects creating large amounts of trash. Its monthly free weekends at the City’s Transfer Station and Landfill have become popular with residents who need help disposing of yard waste. Its next free weekend is June 29-30. For more details, see https://www.ci.lamar.co.us/landfill.

Water/Wastewater

Water crews provide clean drinking water to residents and maintain wastewater systems. They are regulated by the State of Colorado and report to it for compliance measures. Providing water means starting in Lamar’s wellfield. Staff maintain the City’s wells and pump equipment as well as maintain and repair water and sewer lines. Once the water is used, it then goes into the wastewater system, maintained by the Wastewater crew. It then sends filtered wastewater to our lagoons northeast of Lamar for evaporation. The City is planning to build a new wastewater treatment facility and implement additional water-related upgrades as part of its Water/Wastewater Master Plan completed in 2022.

Southeast Colorado Regional Airport

Recently upgraded to a regional airport, it has become the hub for Southeast Colorado. The City now operates the airport and has multiple airport staff, including an airplane mechanic. It provides self-fueling services so that entities such as Flight for Life are able to fuel up and provide assistance to our community. The airport also receives multiple freight shipments each day. Hangar rentals are available, and sites are open for development. Prowers Economic Prosperity is aligning with the City to bring additional aviation and freight-related businesses to the airport.

For more information on National Public Works Week, visit www.apwa.org/events/national-public-works-week-npww.

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