| FUND: INTERNAL SERVICE/SPECIAL REVENUE |
PUBLIC WORKS |
Glenn Lampark, Director of Public Works
Dennis Orlando, Superintendent of Highway and Parks
The goal of the Highway division is to maintain, plan, and
construct County Trunk highways and to maintain State Trunk highways and
freeways so as to provide citizens of the County with a safe and usable roadway
system at a level of service acceptable to a majority of its citizens and at the
lowest possible cost. It is also our objective to provide support and
assistance, both physical and technical, to preserve, protect, and improve
Racine County’s infrastructure.
Working out of facilities at Ives Grove and Rochester, the division provides all
the maintenance services required for the proper upkeep of the roads that it is
responsible for, including the specialized services required each winter.
The division currently maintains over 330 lane miles of County Trunk highways,
16 County bridges and numerous smaller drainage structures, and operates and
maintains six County-owed dams, County –owned gravel pits, and the County’s fuel
management system. It also has primary charge of the County’s Underground
Storage Tank Management System.
Under the general direction of the State Department of Transportation, this
division provides general and winter maintenance on over 550 lane miles of
freeway and State Trunk Highways within Racine County. In order to perform this
work, the division controls, supervises, and maintains approximately 700
vehicles and pieces of equipment used in highway and park maintenance and
operations.
The Public Works department operates and maintains the Racine County motor pool,
providing vehicles to county departments on a cost-per-mile basis.
The Highway division’s planning and engineering staff, which includes the County
surveyor, plans, designs, competitively bids, constructs and inspects highway,
bridge, park and other major County projects. The division’s operations staff
provides accounting and administrative functions for the highway and park funds.
Reconstruction of CTH ‘K” from the Central
Pacific Rail Road to the Union Pacific Rail Road with signalization of the
intersection of CTH “H” and ‘K’
Concrete joint repairs on CTH ‘C’
Completion of Design Engineering for
construction projects on County Trunk Highways ‘Y” and ‘G’ and the intersection
of ‘C’ and ‘H’
Completion of 14 miles of seal coat on various
County Trunk Highways
Completion of storm water improvements and
Phase 1 of parking lot rehabilitation at Ives Grove
