Backhoe operator Lonnie Johnson dumps a load of salt into a Kenworth dump truck driven by fleet mechanic Doug Meyung and driver Danny Peters.
Public Works crews plowing, salting streets through the night
COVINGTON, Ky. – Bright lights, blowing snow, lots of noise, and carefully choreographed action.
That was the scene late into Monday night at the City of Covington’s salt dome on Bor...
Ben Broomall, a groundsworker in the Devou Park/Forestry Division, turns Christmas trees into mulch near the Ohio River floodwall.
Holiday recycling programs save landfill space
COVINGTON, Ky. – Efforts to recycle and repurpose holiday-related waste in Covington this season gathered in over a quarter-ton of burned-out light strings and a veritable forest of dried-out evergreens.
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Can this be recycled?: Yes, no, sometimes
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of recycling tips from the City of Covington's Neighborhood Services Department, Solid Waste & Recycling Division.)
COVINGTON, Ky. – ... in which Rumpke Waste & Recycling helps us shed light (in rather specific fashion, we point out) on every recycler’s haunting question: &l...
Careful maneuvering, perseverance required on tight city streets
COVINGTON, Ky. – With scant inches of space between his mirrors and the parked cars on either side, Jason Roberts slowly maneuvered his Ford 250 down 28th Street, his plow scraping the road free of freshly fallen snow.
It was nearly midnight, Roberts was almost six hours into what promised to be a 16-hour shift, ...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Note to Covington residents looking to get rid of construction/home renovation debris and other bulk trash items:
The Covington Transfer Station will be closed Friday to drop-off traffic starting at noon and all day Saturday temporarily as Rumpke Waste & Recycling, which runs the complex, makes improvements to the site.
But Rumpke will be accepting bulk tr...
City welcomes project but fears impact on businesses
COVINGTON, Ky. – The Suspension Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic beginning Monday and closed to vehicles altogether starting Feb. 15, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced today.
The closure will last up to 10 months as part of a $4.7 million restoration project to fix crumbling sandstone on the north tow...
Lonnie Johnson, a light equipment operator with Covington’s Public Works Department, prepares to grab another load of salt at the City’s complex on Boron Drive this morning as crews continued to treat roads.
COVINGTON, Ky. – The snow fell, the wind at times raged, and the slush on the ground froze and then refroze as surface temperatures fluctuated … but the snow-fighters ...
City seeks firms for demolition, environmental hazards removal
COVINGTON, Ky. – Three underground fuel tanks. A 3,000-gallon underground concrete “vault.” A sprawling one-story brick facility whose “footprint” stretches across most of 17 acres. Asbestos. Lots of asphalt.
And cavernous physical plant rooms filled with wires, compressors, greasy gears, gen...
Wi-Fi connectivity and the strength of the network signal depend upon a number of geographic and construction factors.
Completed Covington Connect initiative eroding ‘digital divide’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Thousands more Covington families have free access to the Internet, courtesy of the all-but-completed “Covington Connect” initiative whose goal is to smash the digi...
The City is hiring landscape and maintenance workers for the year. Here, a permanent employee in the Public Works Department, James Johnson, knocks down weeds on the riverfront.
Public Works, Solid Waste & Recycling hiring ‘seasonals’
COVINGTON, Ky. – Want a job working in the fresh air of the great outdoors instead of being “chained” to a desk or stuck on a facto...