Nearly everywhere you look, you can see where Public Works helps make our City successful! City of Bellingham Public Works provides many essential services to keep us healthy, clean, and safe. Celebrate Public Works this year by learning more about how Public Works serves our community and participating in the activities below!
Activities to Celebrate National Public Works Week
Celebrate National Public Works Week with these family-friendly activities. Share pictures of your completed drawings and from your scavenger hunt and tours with Public Works staff by emailing them to askPW@cob.org.
Join us for two special events in May to celebrate National Public Works Week!
- May 14, 12:05 – 1:05 p.m.: Read with the Crew Join us for a special preschool Public Works Storytime at the Bellis Fair Library Branch. For children ages 3 and up. Listen to a story read by our City’s Public Works crew in English and Spanish about big trucks, then join us outside (near Dick’s Sporting Goods parking lot) and meet the trucks that help our community!
- May 22, 1-3 p.m.: Meet-A-Truck Come check out the big trucks and equipment that keep your streets, storm drains, sewer, and water lines running smoothly. The event takes place outside in between Bellingham City Hall and the Bellingham Public Library at 210 Lottie Street. Activities include crafts, a scavenger hunt, and more! The event is FREE, all ages welcome. Stop by anytime between 1-3 p.m.
Print, color and share these four Public Works vehicle coloring pages below!
How has the City of Bellingham Public Works helped your neighborhood? Take a walk around your neighborhood and see if you can spot items that Public Works has installed in your neighborhood to keep you safe, clean and healthy while you walk, bike, drive, play and live.
Discover where the rain flows after it hits the ground by taking one of Bellingham’s self-guided Stormwater Discovery Tours. On these tours, you will explore urban and parkland areas while learning how the City keeps our water clean, filters out pollutants, and prevents flooding.
Learn About Public Works
Public Works provides safe, clean drinking water, manages and treats our wastewater, issues permits, builds our roadways, sidewalks and bike lanes, manages stormwater and protects our natural resources. The video below provides an overview of some of these essential services.
Public Works also implements various construction projects that improve our community. Project benefits range from increasing connectivity throughout our City with new roadways to improving habitat and water quality in local streams. The following videos provide a closer look at some projects implemented by Public Works:
- Healing the Nooksack: Bringing down the dam on the Middle Fork to restore a free-flowing river
- Squalicum Creek Re-route Phases 3 and 4 Construction Tour
- Opening of Orchard Drive Extension (Birchwood Avenue)
- Pacific Street Operations Center
Resources
- Bellingham Public Works Water System Video
- Bellingham Public Works Stormwater Video
- Bellingham Public Works Sewer Video
- Bellingham Public Works Streets Video
- Bellingham Public Works Wastewater Treatment Video
- Public Works Department Services
