Sedgwick County Public Works

Definition:

Public Works is responsible for over 600 miles of roads and 657 bridges within Sedgwick County.The Highway Department handles the operations and maintenance of roads, bridges and intersections to ensure safe passage throughout the County. The Stream Maintenance Department maintains certain watercourses to help minimize flooding, erosion and property damage. The Noxious Weed Department is responsible for the control and eradication of noxious weeds on all County property.

Inventory Elements:

• Sedgwick County Maintenance and Construction System

Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintenance and Construction for Wichita Area
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible to posting work zone information on portable DMS and HAR to information motorist of work zone activity. These posting will allow motorist to drive with caution as they travel through work zones in Sedgwick county.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for coordinating work zone projects with adjacent jurisdictions. This coordination will help to ensure that motorist are not unnecessarily driving through multiple work zone and are not causing significant delays to motorist.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for managing the routine maintenance activities (e.g., grass cutting, debris removing, field asset repairs) in Sedgwick County.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for distributing the road weather conditions collected from environmental sensor stations and also from their maintenance and construction vehicles (future concept) to other agencies in Sedgwick county.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for using the environmental sensors to access roadway conditions and make determinations as to what corrective actions are warranted.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for tracking their maintenance and construction vehicles to aid with managing snow plow operations and resource deployments.
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for managing snow plow operations for their coverage areas and ensuring proper treatment measures are implemented to allow motorist to safely navigate on the roadway system.

Surface Street Management for Wichita Area
• Sedgwick County Public Works is responsible for managing the traffic signal timings for Sedgwick County. In the future, Wichita will control Sedgwick County signals through an arterial traffic management system.