Street & Sanitation
The Crawfordsville Street and
Sanitation Department provides service to the community in many ways, taking
much pride in maintaining a clean and safe city. The department has 22 full
time employees.
The Crawfordsville Street Department was established on
August 17, 1865, when the first city election was held. After the city was
incorporated, a street commissioner and an engineer were appointed to do
something about the streets in the business district. Poor roads were among
the biggest complaints from citizens in those early days. The first Street
Commissioner was John W. Ross.
The Crawfordsville Street Department provides maintenance
and upkeep to the city streets. The department patches pot holes, repairs
inlets, removes snow, ice and other weather related annoyances from the city
streets for safe travel. We have various types of equipment: 5 dump truck,
loader, backhoe, bucket truck, 5 one ton trucks, vac all, road grader, 3- ½
ton trucks, 3 -¾ ton trucks, road service truck, patching machine, paint
van, 2 bobcats, jet truck, and 3 tractors with mowers. All of the equipment
we have is used almost daily. The department has a large trash pickup
program. They collect large household items at curbside for city residents,
free of charge. This is done once a month all year around. The pick up is
usually on the last Wednesday of the month, and is provided to the first one
hundred residents who call into the office, starting on the first of the
month.
The Sanitation department provides city trash pick up for
city residents. The department collects all city trash and recycling at
curbside. The employees collect trash year round regardless of the weather.
The Sanitation department has 2 new trucks that pickup trash and recycling
at the same time. They also have 2 older trucks, and a recycle truck is
still used on double pick up days. We do street side recycling for bottles,
cans, plastics #1 & #2, and paper. Recyclable materials can also be taken to
the Yard Waste Site at 1151 N. Whitlock Ave.. Cardboard is not picked up
curbside, but can be taken to the Yard Waste Site for recycling. The
department encourages recycling to help reduce the amount of items that
would normally go into landfills.
The Yard Waste Site was established in 1991 at the old
land fill site. It is a facility provided by the city, free of charge, for
residents to take limbs, leaves, grass, etc. In the fall the department
picks up leaves curbside for city residents.