MADISON, WI – The City’s sandbag locations are stocked and ready ahead of the spring rains. Each year, Engineering crews stock each of the sandbag locations for residents to use for free to support residents with potential private flooding concerns…
City Engineering is asking the public to reduce salt use when removing ice and snow this winter and join Wisconsin Salt Wise for Wisconsin Salt Awareness Week, Jan. 11-15, 2021.
City Engineering and Wisconsin Salt Wise will have a number of…
The City of Madison Engineering Division is looking for its next class of GreenPower Program trainees for 2021. The application is now available for anyone who would like to apply for the solar installation job training program.
GreenPower is a…
MADISON, WI – Many people are preparing for a busy cooking season, starting with Thanksgiving this week. City Engineering would like to remind everyone to avoid putting grease, fats and oils down the drain, which impacts the City’s sanitary sewer…
Residents should try to manually remove snow as soon as possible to avoid slick conditions and unnecessary salt use, especially on paths and sidewalks.
While the first snow is here, residents may use this time to brush up on how to use salt…
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway announced today that the temporary homeless shelter for men will be leaving the Warner Park Community Recreation Center, where it has operated since March 30, and moving to the recently vacated City Fleet Services…
The City of Madison Engineering and Streets divisions want to remind the community not to place pumpkins in the City’s retention ponds and greenways after Halloween, and instead, consider composting, bringing the pumpkins and other yard waste to the…
MADISON, WI – The City’s GreenPower trainees will be busy for at least the next few years installing solar panels on City buildings at a ‘rapid pace,’ according City of Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. At 9 a.m., Oct. 15, 2020, Mayor Satya Rhodes-…
While fall is officially here, progress toward next summer is underway at Warner Park. Crews began construction on the Warner Park beach shelter Facility at the beginning of September. The Warner Park beach shelter is the first shelter to provide…
Anyone who wants to help the environment by being a better watershed steward should consider adding rain barrels and compost bins to their home this fall.
Rainwater harvesting systems, such as rain barrels, collect and store rainfall for later use.…
The City of Madison Engineering Division invites the public, especially in two specific watershed areas of the City, to virtually attend its next two watershed meetings. Even though COVID-19 has prevented the typical in-person meetings from…
The concrete demolition of Government East Garage has begun. An excavator specially equipped for demolition took its first bites out of the third floor guardrail and stairwell, mid-day Monday, August 31st.