Operations and Maintenance
Maintaining and Improving
The Operations & Maintenance (O & M) Division of Public Works is responsible for street maintenance, surface water maintenance and parks maintenance. Covington has a mixed service approach to these functions in that the maintenance is provided both by in-house staff and service providers. The following items are handled by O & M:
- Street maintenance
- Drainage maintenance
- Vegetation maintenance
- Litter debris removal
- Sidewalk maintenance
- Striping and pavement markings
- Signs maintenance
- Traffic signal maintenance
- Street landscaping
- Fleet maintenance
- Facility maintenance
The City oversees contracts for street sweeping, storm sewer cleaning, landscape maintenance, large patching and shoulder repairs, sign and signal maintenance and fleet maintenance. The in-house team responds to all immediate needs and provides general services in all other areas.
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Emergency Callout
The City of Covington Public Works Department will respond to citizen action requests 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year in order to better serve its citizens and protect against injury, liability and infrastructure damage.
The following are considered emergency items:
- Hazardous material spills (any size)
- Downed signs (Stop, Yield, Do Not Enter, Wrong Way or One Way Only)
- Any flooding or drainage system failures and water over roadway
- Any water running in our parks or buildings
- Slippery conditions/ice/snow
- Traffic signals or crosswalk lights out (City owned)
- Landslides
- Downed trees
- Downed power lines (we do not respond to the power complaint, just to secure the area for public safety)
- Any traffic obstruction
- Major weather event
- Natural or man made disaster (first responder)