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Middletown Public Works outlines maintenance workload and major infrastructure projects for 2025
Summary
Public Works director Scott Taddish presented a department overview, workload statistics, and an update on major projects including CSO basin, a new two-million-gallon water tower, filter backwash upgrades, Renaissance Point infrastructure, and multiple paving projects.
Public Works Director Scott Taddish gave a detailed overview of city infrastructure responsibilities and current projects at the Jan. 7 council meeting, highlighting maintenance demands, recent workloads and several multi‑year capital projects.
Taddish said Public Works comprises 13 divisions with responsibilities that include streets, stormwater, wastewater treatment, water production and distribution, traffic signals, parks and grounds, and fleet maintenance. He noted the city maintains roughly 650 lane miles of streets (approximately 42,000,000 square feet of pavement) and compared that to Hamilton’s approximately 550 lane miles. Other figures presented: about 234 miles of combined and sanitary sewer, 274 miles of water mains, average daily wastewater treatment of roughly 16,000,000 gallons, and average daily drinking-water production around 12,000,000 gallons (plant capacity up to 20,000,000 gallons).
Taddish reviewed large projects currently in design or construction: the combined sewer overflow (CSO) basin project scheduled to be operational by the end of this year with park improvements above the basin planned for completion in 2026; a recently awarded project to construct a two-million-gallon water tower adjacent to the existing Manchester tower; a filter backwash project at the water treatment plant intended to reduce overflows that affect the nearby airport; engineering management for Renaissance Point Phase 1 public infrastructure and a sanitary sewer project in the North Union Road area; and multiple paving projects scheduled into 2025 and beyond. He also said the department used about 3,100 tons of salt in 2023 across roughly 12 snow events and that special-event permitting continued to increase (more than 70 permits issued in 2024).
Council members asked how long recently completed street levy work should last; Taddish said they expect repaved streets to last roughly 12 to 15 years. He said staff will update project lists on the city website and continue to bring updates to council.
