The condition and safety of the town's roads and bridges is an important part of Engineering's responsibilities. The Division maintains a road condition database, which is used to determine how the Town's limited resources will be best spent to keep the road system in the best possible condition with the funds available. Staff engineers design repairs to town roads and bridges and oversee the implementation of those repairs.
The Admin/Tech Support Division investigates storm water drainage problems affecting town roads and prepares redesigns to rehabilitate failed drainage systems or designs plans to eliminate existing problems. Known drainage problems throughout the town have been assigned a priority ranking and as funds become available, the repairs are contracted and constructed.
Excavations (usually utilities performing gas line installation or maintenance, or for installation of a new driveway) within town road layouts require permits that are issued by Engineering. In addition to issuing the permits, Engineering also licenses the contractors who do the work and inspects the excavation locations to insure that the contractors properly restore the road surface to its original condition.
