UTILITIES

Department

BUDGET: $49,194,045

# of employees: 8

Director: Kelly Crowe, P.E. 305-809-3752 utilities@cityofkeywest-fl.gov

Utilities operates and maintains the City’s Sewer and Stormwater infrastructure as well as managing the solid waste and recycling contract. There are 8 City employees. City staff manages the contracts for both Jacobs (Wastewater Treatment Plant, Sewer collections and storm drainage system) and Waste Management (Solid Waste). The City’s Utility infrastructure includes the following:

■ Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) rated to treat up to 10 million gallons per day

■ 2 Deep Injection Wells (3,000 feet depth) to dispose of treated effluent

■ 26 sanitary sewer pump stations

■ 5 storm water pump stations

■ 143 storm water gravity wells

By The Numbers

■ Treated and safely disposed over 1.64 billion gallons of wastewater

■ Processed nearly 50,000 tons of solid waste

■ Obtained and manages approximately $20,000,000 in grant funding to supplement city generated revenue

■ Actively working on nearly $40,000,000 in capital projects

FY 2022 HIGHLIGHTS

■ Completed Compost Pilot

■ Started evaluation of Waste to Energy program

■ Dennis Street Pump Station operational

■ Selected consultant for Fleming Key Directional Bore (main influent piping to WWTP)

■ Added Asset Manager position at Wastewater Treatment Plant

■ Coordinated with Engineering on drainage improvements at Greene and Elizabeth

■ Incorporated new Sea Level Rise design criteria to the Storm Drainage Master Plan

■ Started the design process on 10th and Harris Street Drainage and Sea Level Rise mitigation

■ Improved collections at the Transfer Station yielding approximately $250,000 in additional revenue

■ Construction of the South Roosevelt Pump Station to begin in 2023. City staff worked closely with FDOT to ensure the pump station will account for sea level rise.

THE LOCAL MEN AND WOMEN OF WASTE MANAGEMENT TAKE PRIDE IN CALLING KEY WEST HOME.

THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO BE YOUR COMMUNITY PARTNER.

ONCE-A-WEEK GARBAGE, TRASH AND RECYCLE OVER 180,800 CUSTOMER PICKUPS A MONTH

WE HAUL 3,890 COMBINED TONS YARD WASTE, RECYCLING AND TRASH OUR TRUCKS AVERAGE MORE THAN 10,000 MILES PER MONTH COVERING AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY.