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Department of Public Works
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For
almost a hundred years, the Department of Public Works
has grown from a very limited road department to a
department that today includes multi-responsibilities to
better serve the residents. The history of the
department is a fascinating one beginning when each
house in the Borough of Orville, as we were named then,
had its own well or cistern. There were no parks, no
borough facilities, no sanitary sewer system and no
recycling. There were no paved roads and the “road
master”, who was a volunteer, attempted to maintain some
roads in some seasons but never in winter. The original
road department building was constructed in the early
1940’s with used lumber salvaged from the old school
house on the Sheridan Avenue site – now the location of
the fire department and a first employee, Herman
Merguson, was appointed in 1930 as a utility man.
The
Department of Public Works officially was established in
1970 changing from a road department into a branch of
the municipal government with multi-responsibilities.
These responsibilities include: maintenance of all borough buildings –
borough hall, police, fire and ambulance wings. library,
and the DPW building; the train station; six water pump houses, four sewer pump
stations, in excess of thirty miles of sanitary and
storm sewers, cleaning and maintaining of storm
catch basins; over thirty miles of streets, snow and
leaf removal;
approximately three thousand shade trees; vehicle maintenance of police, ambulance
and borough vehicles; recycling program which includes hauling
of five thirty yard boxes of recycling a week; six borough parks.
A water
distribution system was constructed in 1906 and
originally the borough bought its water from the Bergen
Aqueduct Company, the Ridgewood Water and Waldwick
Water. It was in 1954 construction was completed on the
first two wells and the borough became water
independent.
Today we own and operate:
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five artesian wells
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two water treatment
facilities;
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over thirty miles of
water mains that vary in size from four inches to twelve
inches
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two hundred twenty five
fire hydrants
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three water storage tanks
with a capacity of over one million
seven hundred fifty gallons
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1506 water connections
are serviced
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over two million gallons
of water a year flow through our system
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The mayor
and council encourages its employees to attend technical
schools for the purpose of obtaining the necessary state
licenses to operate the water and sanitary systems. The
attainment of these licenses is under the strict
guidelines of the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection. Employees also attend classes to qualify
for emergency personnel in the fire and ambulance
areas.
Management
Michael W. Frank: Superintendent - Holds T2, W2, C2, & CPWM
License’s
James Montag:
Assistant Superintendent – Holds T2, W2 & C2
License’s
Jeff Pattman:
Foreman - Holds W1 License, EMT & Firefighter 3
Susan Greig:
Secretary
Maintenance Personnel
Leo
Milano
Robert Evans:
Volunteer Ambulance Department Driver
Michael Beckerman
Gary Tyler:
Volunteer Ambulance EMT
Jason Siebel:
Volunteer Fire Department Firefighter 1
Darryl Zawadzki
Ronald Pisano:
Pesticide Licenses
Jose Martinez:
Custodian
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