About Richfield Public Works

 Public Works Offices
1901 East 66th Street
Richfield, MN 55423

The City's Public Works Department is responsible for overseeing the design and maintenance of City buildings and infrastructure.  The City's Utility Division staff helps provide and maintain a safe water supply and responsible disposal of waste water to the City's 34,000 residents every day.  They test the water to make sure it's safe, monitor the City's wells, provide routine cleaning and maintenance to the City's 120 miles of utility pipes, and handle billing.

Engineering Division Overview

The Engineering Division's mission is to provide planning, design and construction management support for Public Works operations, construction and maintenance projects.

This Division provides technical support for:

• The administration of City maintenance projects, such as sealcoating of blacktopped streets, resurfacing blacktopped streets using mill and overlay techniques, and replacing broken sections of curb, gutter and sidewalk. These measures protect the condition of city streets and prolong their life.
   
• The review of construction plans for private developments such as Cedar Point, Woodlake Center, City Bella and Best Buy campus improvements. The division monitors construction of these projects for compliance with City approved plans.
   
• Monitor projects by other agencies such as: I-35W reconstruction and the addition of an HOV lane;  reconstruction of the interchange of Highway 77 and 66th Street, and the redesign of the Highway 62 Crosstown Commons area.

For additional information please call 612-861-9795

Transportation Division

The Transportation Division focuses its transportation efforts on planning and design of different transportation modes, most notably roads, transit, bikeways and sidewalks, and assures adequate coordination is achieved with state, regional and neighboring units of government.

The Division also supports the City in providing analysis of traffic safety and handling traffic control requests such as for stop signs and no parking signs.

The division provides technical support for:

• The administration of the City's Traffic Control Committee. The Committee is responsible for recommending changes in traffic control measures, frequently based on requests made by residents and local businesses.
• Review of traffic collision records to assure that potential traffic safety hazards are identified and corrected.
• Representation of the City's interests at the state and regional levels to assure that Richfield is well served by major transportation decisions.
• Conduct transportation planning studies for the City. Periodic reports on the progress of these studies will be shown on this Web site.

For additional information please call: 612-861-9791

Streets, Parks and Building Maintenance Division

Richfield's Streets, Parks and Building Maintenance Division sealcoats and resurfaces Richfield streets every year.  In addition, staff provides regular cleaning of City streets.  Richfield has more than 20 parks and staff is responsible for the upkeep by mowing, trimming or removing trees, cleaning up trash, and maintaining outdoor ice rinks in the winter months.  Staff is also responsible for maintaining City facilities like City Hall, City Garage, Community Center, Municipal Liquor Store buildings, Wood Lake Nature Center, and other park buildings.