Is the canal system in Ft Lauderdale run by politics?”
The Public Works Department’s mission is “to achieve total customer satisfaction by providing quality public services.” These public services include all water, wastewater, and stormwater activities throughout the City of Fort Lauderdale and several adjacent communities. All sanitation operations in the City are covered as well. In addition to operating and maintaining the facilities associated with these services, the department maintains all city-owned buildings, public streets and rights-of-way. This department, the largest provider of infrastructure service in Broward County, employs more than 500 professionals who currently serve a population of 300,000. The Environmental Laboratories section provides compliance monitoring services as well as chemical and microbiological analysis for drinking water, wastewater, recreational water and stormwater systems to ensure that these functions comply with expanding local, state and federal health and environmental rules and guidelines. The l
