Illegal Dumping a Persistent Problem at Drop-Off Site

The Division of Public Works continues to find items illegally left at the gate of the city's drop-off site.

The signs at the Division of Public Works drop-off site are as clear as day. One explicitly says when the drop-off center is open. Another tells what you can drop off at the site. And a third says “no dumping” your items when the center is closed, and warns people that they are under video surveillance. But several times a week, an employee from John’s Disposal Service, the city’s new garbage and recycling contractor, or a DPW worker finds bags of trash, household items and even containers of oil sitting outside the locked fence. They are items residents, or maybe non-residents, have dropped off illegally with disregard to all the posted signs. “Sometimes you get there and it looks like people cleaned out their basement and left it at the …

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Overtime Rules for City Employees Restored to Previous Form

The rules had changed Jan. 1 but were changed back at the urging of Division of Public Works superintendent Dan Ewert.

Updated: Greenfield DPW Braces for Winter Storm

Whether the snow comes today, tomorrow or some other day, the Division of Public Works is ready.

Updated at 9:30 a.m. Friday: Greenfield's Divison of Public Works finished up its snow operations at approximately 8 p.m. last night and resumed operations at 4 a.m. this morning to get things ready for morning rush hour. Original story: At 3:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, the Division of Public Works building is as silent as a cemetery. With the exception of Superintendent Dan Ewert and a local reporter, no one remains in the building that just minutes ago was bustling with action. But sitting in the spacious attached garage are more than a dozen massive trucks equipped, most equipped with plow blades and loaded down with salt, ready to spring into action today, tomorrow or whenever Mother Nature decides to blanket the city with its first …

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Greenfield Water Tower Under Repair

The tower is undergoing standard repairs including a paint job.

What looks like some bizarre scene out of a science-fiction movie is really just the Greenfield water tower getting some much needed repairs. The water tower, located near 84th Street and Cold Spring Road by St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church and School, is draped with a gigantic cover. The tower, which is under control of the Milwaukee Water Works, is undergoing standard repairs including replacing some metal that was showing signs of deterioration, sandblasting, and painting both inside and outside of the tower, according to Greenfield Superintendent of Public Works Dan Ewert. Correction: A previous version of this story said that "City of Greenfield" will be painted on the water tower. It will not.

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