New Milford Highway Department

Highway Superintendent: Gerald Hollins
jhollins@newmilford.org

Public Works Foreman: Joe Tillman
jtillman@newmilford.org

The Highway Department is comprised of a superintendent, public works foreman and 32 highway maintenance personnel including a vehicle maintenance supervisor and four vehicle maintenance personnel.  The Public Works Department owns 24 dump trucks, five small trucks, two front loaders, two graders, two backhoes, five pick up trucks, a van, an excavator, a paver, a 10 and 5 ton roller, a catch-basin cleaner, three sweepers, and various other tractors and small equipment.  In addition we maintain more than 15 vehicles and pieces of equipment for other town departments and agencies.
The Highway Department is responsible for the maintenance, drainage and snow plowing for all 180 miles of paved roads and 26.18 miles of gravel roads throughout Town. Besides the obvious basics of paving and plowing, Highway: cleans catch basins, sprays guide rails for weed control, repairs guide rails, sweeps, grades gravel roads, maintains drainage, plants trees, clears downed trees and branches, installs drainage, repairs and conducts preventative maintenance on Town vehicles, installs flags, beaver dam removal, installs and replaces signs, line stripes, patches potholes, fixes and installs curbing, responds to customer service requests aka CSR's [600 FY 7-8], rakes, seeds and hays new drainage installations, bulky waste pick-up and mows roadsides, just to name a few daily jobs.

Below is a list of regular maintenance items that were purchased or completed during the 2007-2008 Fiscal Year:

·         20 miles of guardrail weed spraying

·         25.21 miles of Chip Seal work

·         1.08 miles of Train work

·         5.0 miles of paving

·         300 + lane miles of sweeping – including multiple sweepings of the Downtown and other areas by 2 to 3 sweepers, water truck and haul trucks

·         285 lane miles of mowing and brush cutting

·         4 guide rail miles repaired or replaced

·         2,100 catch basins were cleaned

·         6,833 CY of various stone for drainage work, gravel roads etc.