The Roads and Drainage Division maintains roadways and drainage facilities in unincorporated Orange County. The facilities maintained include 2,600 miles of roadway and over 1,400 stormwater retention ponds. The Division also maintains over 95 miles of primary drainage canals and over 75 miles of secondary drainage outfalls. Other stormwater related functions performed by the Division include operation and maintenance of stormwater pump stations, drainwells, and flood control structures.
The Roads & Drainage Division has eight satellite Maintenance Facilities strategically located throughout the County. Other sections within the division include Administration, Paving and Earthworks, Drainage, MSTU and Spray, Heavy Equipment, Construction, Contract, Research and Technical.
Maintenance Facilities Crews at these facilities respond to roadway and drainage problems while providing maintenance of mowing, grading and ditch restoration. These facilities are located in Apopka, John Young, West Orange, and Zellwood in the west and in Bithlo, Goldenrod, Taft and Three Points in the east portion of the County. Click here (PDF - 181 KB) for a boundry map of these eight maintenance units.
Administration Section Provides support and monitoring functions pertaining to budget preparation and monitoring, payroll preparation, emergency operations, planning and training coordination, union issues representation and monitoring as well as general administrative duties.
Paving & Earthwork Resurfaces, repairs and widens existing roadways including rehabilitating shoulders and roadside ditches. Administrates the alternative surfacing program and paving of unpaved roadways.
Drainage, MSTU & Spray Section Maintains the primary canal system, operates and maintains drainwells, pump stations, dams and other flood control structures, as well as, the Municipal Service Taxing Unit (MSTU) stormwater retention ponds and non-MSTU roadside ponds. Other services include installing security fencing for stormwater canals and retention ponds including directing and supporting the Adopt-A-Highway Program. This section is responsible for all herbicide spraying for unincorporated Orange County roadway rights of way and retention pond systems.
Heavy Equipment Section Support the construction, drainage, maintenance facilities and Paving and Earthwork Section with the scheduling, transporting and training of heavy equipment crews.
Construction Section Responsible for major and minor construction retrofit within unincorporated Orange County. This includes the repair or replacement of sidewalks, drainage and flood control structure repairs, maintenance of bridges, major outfall sliplining, sealing of stormwater pipe joints, as well as small-scale stormwater system retrofit.
Contract Section Manages the maintenance term contracts related to roadway paving, drainage system retrofit, material procurement, maintenance services and heavy equipment purchases. Staff oversees all roads and drainage projects, ensuring contract specifications and quality control measures.
Research Section Researches, inventories and maintains accurate information for all roadways and drainage improvements in unincorporated Orange County. Inventoried information includes details defining the use, ownership and maintenance responsibility for all infrastructure improvements to ensure proper maintenance of roadways and drainage systems.
Technical Section Responsible for Capital Improvement Project evaluation, permitting and construction, administration, conducting activity-based costing, monitoring annual budget, roadway inventory updates, tracking status of all county roadways, and maintaining facility maps, pond and drainage system records.
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