National Public Works Week Offers Behind The Scenes Look

Thursday, 12 May 2016 07:53

Special tours are being held all over Oxford County during National Public Works Week

OXFORD COUNTY - Oxford County Public Works is giving a behind the scenes look for National Public Works Week.

They are planning special tours of several of their facilities during the week. Director of Public Works Robert Walton tells us about Tuesday's special tour of the Waste Management Facility.

"People will be able to see where things that need to be landfilled are landfilled but they'll also get to see the really great things that are happening down there with diversion of waste, our construction and demolition yard there where we take construction and demolition waste, and then we have a contractor that takes it away and recycles it."

The Public Works department also handles monitoring our water and cleaning our wastewater. They also maintain our roads and Walton says there's more to that then just plowing them in the winter.

"The rest of the year there's a lot of other operations that go on from installing culverts, working on road shouldering, fixing signs."

People are encourage to use #NPPW and #always there on social media during National Public Works Week.

Here is a complete list of all of the tours and open houses in Oxford County:

Monday May 16 - Waste Management Tour (3pm-7pm)
Oxford County Waste Management Facility, 384060 Salford Road, Salford

Tuesday May 17 - Water Treatment Open Houses (3pm-7pm)
Fairview Booster Station, 58 Langrell Avenue, Tillsonburg
Water Operations Building, 59 George Johnson Boulevard, Ingersoll
Thamesford Water Tower, 202 Stanley Street, Thamesford

Wednesday May 18 - Roads Operation and Maintenance Open Houses (3pm-7pm)
Springford Patrol Yard, 432594 Zenda Line, Springford
Highland Patrol Yard, 884135 County Road 8, Embro
Drumbo Patrol Yard, 895939 Oxford Road 3, Drumbo

Thursday May 19 - Wastewater Treatment Tour (3pm-7pm)
Woodstock Wastewater Treatment Plant, 195 Admiral Street, Woodstock
Tavistock Lagoon, 381 William Street South, Tavistock