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Pictured
from left
are Randy
by Theresa Dardanell Eyler, Harold
Lawson,
Depar tment Butch West,
Lee Hanvey,
Tim Eyler,
Spotlight and Kelly
Duty.
Thurmont Public W orks Department
Everyone in the Thurmont Flexibility is required when state and federal drinking water and trimming trees around power
Public Works Department believes daily jobs are put on hold so that regulations. Their goal is to provide lines.
in the importance of cooperation, employees can work on special residents with a safe and dependable
teamwork, and flexibility. These events. Almost any activity in town supply of drinking water. Wastewater Treatment and
standards ensure that the residents involves members of the department. Collection Department
of Thurmont can depend on the Colorfest is the event that requires Streets and Parks Department Superintendent Randy Eyler,
department, which is headed by the most staff, but employees are Supervisor Tim Eyler, along Diana Willard, Troy Wastler, and
Superintendent Butch West, and also essential during the carnival, with employees Steve Nicholson, Jeff Kilby work together to maintain
consists of several divisions with parade, concerts in the park, Colby Savage, and Russell Sanders, the treatment plant, which has the
seventeen full-time employees. Halloween in the Park, Christmas work together to maintain and capacity to treat one million gallons
I recently met with West and decorating, Fun Fest, and more. repair twenty-three miles of a day, as well as the collection
department heads: Water Cooperation is apparent between paved and unpaved streets, as system, which consists of about
Superintendent Harold Lawson, Public Works Department employees, well as sidewalks. They also 2,700 taps. They make sure that all
Streets and Parks Supervisor Tim the town office staff, the elected town maintain Community Park, East state and federal regulations are met,
Eyler; Electric Supervisor Lee officials, the Police Department, End Park, Eyler Park, Carroll and do all paperwork and required
Hanvey; Wastewater Treatment and the residents. The departments Street Park, Pleasant Acres Park, lab testing in house.
Superintendent Randy Eyler; and work together to help citizens of the Orchard Hills Park, Ice Plant
Zoning and Utility Inspector Kelly community stay informed and keep Park, Woodland Park, Memorial Projects
Duty. safe. Information is available on Park, and the Square Park with Zoning and Utility Inspector
Teamwork is important. the town website, Facebook page, the help of seasonal employee Kelly Duty performs inspections,
Although each department has and channel 99. Emergency help is Josh Sevario. These parks provide handles building permits, maintains
separate responsibilities and all available around the clock by calling residents with athletic fields, picnic records, and supervises contractors
employees perform individual 301-271-7313. pavilions, hiking trails, tennis working with the Public Works
duties, they are all willing to West believes that experience courts, basketball courts, and other Department. She is also the project
work together, especially during is also an important factor in the recreational facilities. manager for many of the special
emergency situations. West said that success of the department. He has “There are people who travel projects handled by the department.
if someone in town does not have been with the department for over for miles to come up and enjoy Some of the recent projects include
water or electric, they stop what forty years. The other supervisors the Community Park. They bring the Moser Road bridge near the
they are doing and get to it right have also been with Public Works their kids and let them play on the library, the food bank parking
away. Lawson would like residents for many years: Randy Eyler for equipment. They say they are well lot, and the Eyler Road Park
to know that they try very hard to thirty-four years, Tim Eyler for maintained and that we are doing a improvements.
work on a maintenance schedule, thirty-nine years, Lawson for good job,” said Tim Eyler. Upcoming projects include the
but emergencies require that they twenty-seven years, and Hanvey for Trolley Trail paving and the Moser
respond immediately. eleven years. Electric Department Road sidewalk project.
According to Supervisor Hanvey,
Water Department the job of the Electric Department
The Water Department consists of
is “to make sure the lights stay on.”
Superintendent Lawson, along with Hanvey, Garrett Ridenour, and Joe
Lucas work as linemen, and Brad
employees Lynn Bass and David
Stevens. They maintain and repair
Weddle is the meter technician.
twenty-five miles of distribution West said that Thurmont is one
system piping, as well as 2,500 of the few municipalities to have
residential and commercial water their own electric company. The
meters; they treat approximately department serves approximately
301-271-2247
6,000 residential and commercial
half a million gallons of water a day
from five wells and three treatment customers. Jobs include reading
plants to ensure that the water meets meters, installing electric service,
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