Street Maintenance:  Potholes are filled by a crew that routinely covers all the streets in the city. Primary attention is given to main traffic arteries.  If you see or hit a pothole, a call to DPW will (in most cases) get it repaired by the next working day.

Street Cleaning and Snow Removal: Street sweeping begins in the spring as soon as weather permits and continues through until freezing weather.  The entire city is swept as often as possible depending on availability of personnel and equipment failure.

Main streets are salted and plowed whenever there is snowfall.  Local or side streets are generally plowed when snow accumulation reaches 6" or more during a storm.  Local streets are begun only after the main roads are fully open to reasonable normal traffic flow.  At that point plowing is continuous until all the streets are plowed.  It is unfortunate that driveway approaches are filled when local streets are plowed, but at 6" or more it is necessary to plow to maintain reasonable access for emergency vehicles.  IT IS UNLAWFUL TO PLACE THE SNOW BACK ON THE ROADWAY ONCE THE STREET IS PLOWED. Please make every effort to have cars off the street so that the plows can do a proper cleaning job.  Those on the street between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. will be ticketed when all residential streets are being cleared.

For main roads, the schedule is Nine Mile Road, Greater Mack from Eight to Ten Mile Roads and Twelve and Thirteen Mile Roads, Jefferson from south limits to north limits, Marter, the Mile Roads, Fresard, Stephens, Martin, Masonic and Little Mack.  For local roads the city is divided into two zones, Eight Mile Road to Eleven Mile Road and Eleven Mile Road to the north limits.  Both zones are plowed simultaneously.  Please try to remove vehicles from local roads during heavy snowfall.  (This speeds up plowing, avoids damage to parked vehicles and insures proper plowing from curb to curb.)  Once the local streets are completed, the D.P.W. will respond to individual service requests.  The D.P.W. will not re-plow an area where cars are left on the street during plowing.

For any questions or emergencies, call the Department of Public Works at 445-5363 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.  On weekends, holidays or after hours, call the Police Department at 445-5222.

Sewer Division:  If you have a sewer problem that a private sewer cleaning company cannot resolve, contact the Sewer Division at 445-5363.  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD A RESIDENT CONTRACT TO HAVE A SEWER LINE EXCAVATED WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING A PERMIT AND ARRANGING FOR INSPECTION FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. The Sewer Department will be glad to offer assistance and advice on any repairs / maintenance you’re considering on your sewer lead. The City is responsible for the Main Sewer Line. The homeowner is responsible for the line that leads from the home to the point where the line attaches to the City’s main (this might be across the street) we strongly suggest a routine maintenance plan to help prevent problems with your sanitary sewer.

Finally, any problems in the right-of-way, such as sinking ground or pavement or bad odors from sewers should be reported to the Department of Public Works at 445-5363.