Public Works and Utilities

Public Works Supervisor: Gilbert Royval

Streets Supervisor: Codie Howell

Streets Division

The Streets Division is responsible for the maintenance of the streets, traffic signs, and drainage systems throughout the City of Cache.

Pavement

Pavement maintenance includes inspecting, scheduling, and repairing an inventory of more than 54 miles of roadway inside the city limits along with city parking lot surfaces. Maintaining and improving city roadways is a major community priority and several road repair projects are generally underway throughout the City

Traffic Signs & Construction Zones

The Streets Division’s inventory of traffic signs includes street name signs, and regulatory signs such as stop, speed limit, and no parking signs. Construction work zone safety is also a priority and this inventory includes barrels, cones, barricades, directional signs and flashing yellow lights. The Traffic Control Division is responsible for all stop lights, street signage, and traffic control in the City of Cache. Their duties include making and maintaining all street signs, maintaining all traffic signals, and placing traffic control barricades and signage.

Drainage

Public drainage maintenance includes inspection and cleaning of all city canals, channels, ditches, storm drains, catch basins, curbs, and gutters. This function is a component of the City’s Stormwater Management Program.

The Utilities Department is staffed with a trained and certified / licensed workforce of approximately 6 employees. The City of Cache Utilities Department provides many of the basic services that affect the daily lives of everyone who lives and works in Cache. Primarily, the department is responsible for many things we take for granted daily. This includes the production and distribution of over four million gallons of water per year. It also includes the repair and maintenance of over 200 water line breaks per year, as well as sewer line repair and maintenance.

Responsibilities:

• Utility Maintenance
• Water Treatment

Water Treatment

Cache operates a 12 million-gallon per day water treatment plant to provide drinking water to the City of Cache.

The plant is a conventional, coagulation / clarification / filtration water treatment plant and is operated 24 hours per day, seven days a week and was put into operation in 1983. Current water treatment plant average daily usage is 4.5 million gallons a day and the current water treatment plant maximum daily usage is 8.3 million gallons per day.

Utility Maintenance

The Utility Maintenance operators and maintenance men repair main water breaks during the year and maintain over 700 water meters per year. They are responsible for different repairs and maintenance around the City, which include the following services that are provided for the City of Cache residents:

• Repair of water breaks on public properties
• Relocation of water meters and service lines
• Investigation of low water pressure
• Fire hydrant repair, replacement, and preventive maintenance
• Investigation of sanitary sewer odors
• Smoke testing and removal of sanitary sewer blockages and overflows
• Cleaning and repairing of sanitary sewer lines
• Restoration of public and private property after repair of water and sewer lines
• Installation of new city water meters
• Locating city water and sewer lines for Oklahoma One Call System

When to Contact

The Utility Maintenance Department has a crew on call 24-hours a day for emergency situations. The City of Cache requests that you only use this service if you have an emergency. The following conditions would be considered an emergency:

• City sewer overflowing or blocked
• City water main break (with a large amount of water being lost). This does not include a meter leak or a small leak that is bubbling water. This needs to be reported the following business day
• Resident that needs water shut off due to a water break
• Resident has no water

Please note: If the City Utility Department sends an on-call crew to your home and it is not an emergency situation, the Utility Department will not make the repairs until the following business day.

City of Cache Public Works Department

Welcome to the City of Cache Public Works Department Page This department provides administration, planning, and engineering services related to the maintenance of the City’s infrastructure and facilities. Our goal is to respond to requests for information in a courteous manner, manage projects efficiently and professionally, and provide other city divisions with prompt, quality service.

City-owned infrastructure and facilities include:

• Buildings
• Drainage
• Equipment
• Sanitary landfill
• Stormwater management
• Streets
• Structures
• Traffic signs and signals
• Vehicles

Billing Information

Payments of utility bills are expected by 5:00pm on the 16th (if the 16th falls on a Friday, weekend, or holiday it will be due the next business day) before a penalty is assessed. There will be a penalty of 15% of the unpaid balance more than $10 of the user’s water bill in addition to the regular water bill charge. Service shall be disconnected by the 3rd of the following month after a shut off notice has been delivered. There will be a $50 fee ($25 disconnect fee & $25 re-connect fee) applied to the account if shut off.

A $30 service charge applied to accounts for all nonsufficient checks or auto draft payments. Utility meter readers are prohibited from accepting payments for utility bills.

Garbage & Recycling

City of Cache utilizes Waste Connections Trash Service for Trash collection.

Any concerns or questions about you service, please contact City Hall 580-429-3354 ext. 5, for  bulk pickup call Waste Connections 580-353-1467. Bulk trash pickup is the last Tuesday of each month. You must call Waste Connections to have your bulk trash picked up.

Residence – Polycarts must be placed by the street by 6:00 am.

All trash must be placed in bags. Do not overfill polycart.