Hours of Operation: 8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.
Location: in the 2 story buidling just south of the main City Office
Contact:

The Public Works department is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure as well as providing mosquito control within city limits and environmental services such as monitoring and clean up of spills.

After hours emergency  for water and sewer 

Contat: 993-3868
Contact your local plumber for any plumbing problems within your house or business.
Grenon Enterprises has the necessary equipment to thaw frozen water and sewer lines and can be reached at 993-5761.

Summary of Public Works Infrastructure in City of Dawson

Water System

Source: three infiltration wells drilled to 23 metres deep with 30 hp submersible pumps in each located on Front Street. The old well in Yukon Energy Compound is to be decommissioned.

Storage: two reservoirs of approximate 1300 m3 capacity combined.

Treatment: disinfected with chlorine gas. Heated during winter months with oil fired boilers.

Distribution: 

Sewer System

 Collection:

Treatment: Primary screening at Sewage Treatment Plant. Accomplished by .75 mm mesh rotostrainers then discharge to Yukon River mid channel  200 m west of dyke at Church Street.

Roads

Dawson Proper: 15 km of gravel roads, and 7 km of gravel alleys

Dome: 4 km of gravel roads, and 3.3 km of chip sealed roads

Callison: 9 km of gravel roads, and 5 km of Trans Canada Trail

West Dawson: .5 km of gravel road

Drainage (Dawson Proper): 2.3 km of 500mm to 600 mm dia mains, and 2 km of 200mm to 350 mm dia laterals

Sidewalks

There is currently approximately 5 km of wooden sidewalks mostly in the Downtown core. Currently the City does not install sidewalks in the residential areas.

Floating Docks

150 metres of  floating dock.

Quigley Landfill and Garbage Collection

Quigley Landfill serves City of Dawson, Klondike Valley, the Dempster Highway and the North Klondike Highway. Waste oil and other hazardous wastes are allowed to be dropped off  occasionally in quantities of twenty litres or less. The City does not accept commercial drop offs of any hazardous wastes.

The Landfill is now on Summer Hours of Tues thur Sat.  12:00am - 7:00pm. The landfill has an attendant on site during hours of operation, please check with him to ensure your waste is deposited in the appropriate location.

The City has a partnership with the Conservation Klondike Society whereby refundables are collected at the landfill.

City Garbage Collection is contracted out with residential solid waste collected once a week and commercial solid waste is collected up to 6 times a week during the summer months.

Greenspace

There is approximately four hectares of City maintained green space including two ball parks and two outbuildings.

Non water and Sewer Buildings

City Shop: 275 m2  building with two offices

City Office: 1080 m2  two floor building

Water Front Building: 320 m2 building divided into three offices

Recreation Centre: 4864 m2 building housing hockey rink and curling rink.

Swimming Pool: 900 m2 building

Fire Chief House: 100 m2 building

Doctor’s house: 110 m2  two story building