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This website is designed to make it easy to find answers to your questions about Public Works services. For example, if you want to check when you should be ready for your next trash pick up, or what day leaves will be removed in your neighborhood, click on Keeping Our City Clean. You'll find a link to the 2007 Trash and Leaf Removal Schedule.

Need to know how to report a broken streetlight?

Go to Keeping Our City Moving. Perhaps you'd like to know more about Hoopes Reservoir. Click on Providing Safe Drinking Water and link to the 2006 Water Works newsletter lead article on Wilmington's two-billion-gallon raw water storage reservoir.

Not sure where to look?

Enter a keyword(s) such as "hydrants" or "handicapped parking permits" into the Search Public Works block at left. And if you have a question or need assistance, check out Who to Call.

The City of Wilmington Department of Public Works keeps our City functioning 24-hours-a-day, every day of the year. It is a huge undertaking, involving over 200 men and women. These dedicated workers make sure the water runs; the sewers flow; records are kept; roads, signs and buildings are maintained; and the trash is removed on time.