As we continue practising physical distancing to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, we've taken our annual National Public Works Week (NPWW) event online—allowing residents to learn more about the essential services provided by Durham Works.
Celebrate NPWW from May 17 to 23!
Follow along on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtags #NPWWdurham and #DurhamStrong.
The Region of Durham’s Works Department has been celebrating NPWW annually for the past 19 years as a fun way to show the community what we do! Join us in recognizing the wide range of essential services provided by the Region’s Works Department as we celebrate National Public Works Week from May 17 to 23. This year, learn more about the role that public works plays in your day-to-day life by watching virtual tours of Regional facilities and videos of public works staff in action.
Watch our videos to learn more about Durham Works
The Works Department provides our communities with safe roads, clean drinking water, recycling, composting and waste disposal programs, as well as many more operations that impact our daily lives.
Take a virtual tour of our facilities
We also invite you to take a virtual tour of some of our facilities, and hear from our Water Champions about working at a water pollution control plant:
- Material Recovery Facility virtual tour
- Durham York Energy Centre virtual tour
- Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control plant tour with Kerri
- Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control plant tour with Chris
- Durham Works video
Share your appreciation on social media
You may have noticed friends and family posting photos and messages to thank essential workers during COVID-19. Public Works is doing their part to help flatten the curve by providing a wide range of essential services we use every day. It’s thanks to public works that our residents can stay home, work-from-home and operate business during COVID-19.We’re encouraging residents to share your sidewalk chalk art, decorative window displays and positive messages with us using #NPWWdurham and #DurhamStrong on social media. Your messages will be shared with our hardworking Public Works professionals!
Complete the Public Works #StayHome Colouring Page
Get creative! The Public Works colouring page can be downloaded and printed to colour at home. You can also send us a photo or scanned version of your completed work to be displayed in Regional facilities!
- Share your image on Facebook or Twitter; tag the Region of Durham and use the hashtags #NPWWdurham and #DurhamStrong.
- Email us your artwork.
We value our communities and the role public works professionals play in keeping them safe and functioning smoothly. We want to increase public awareness of their contributions as well as to enlighten the public about the duties, practices, and goals of public works professionals.
Public works professionals include those who manage water, sewer, public transportation, and waste removal systems as well as those responsible for maintaining public buildings and grounds. They are, in short, the people who maintain and improve the systems and services vital to a community’s health, safety and comfort.
Learn more about the Works Department.
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