Public Works? “What does Public Works have to do with me?”
Well, we are in your lives every single time you …
Drink water from the faucet - Take a shower - Wash the dishes - Do the laundry - Water the plants - Flush - Travel on Settlement roads during spring, summer, fall and winter - Observe traffic, speed, or safety signage - Put the garbage out - Do spring or fall cleaning - Need old appliances picked-up - Need gravel or rock for your driveway - Need the mosquitoes sprayed - And a whole number of other situations that may arise from time to time.
Our guiding philosophy is:
“Public Works Team in Action for the Meskwaki Nation”
The Meskwaki Public Works department strives to provide the settlement with a clean and healthy living environment and to respond to the needs of the Community with respectful consideration of the unique character of the tribe.
The services we provide include:
Administers safe travel corridors by maintaining, rehabilitating, designing and improving the roadway transportation and bridge system as well as pedestrian routes
Provide reasonable solutions to special work requests from the community
Restore abandoned waste sites and seal abandoned wells
Assures and maintains a clean water supply
Evaluate and mitigate pesticide, groundwater, and surface water
Conduct the proper treatment of wastewater
Corrective and preventive infrastructure maintenance
Manage solid waste services
Storm debris removal
