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Engineering Department
8640 S. Howell Avenue
PO Box 27
Oak Creek, WI 53154

Office Hours:
8:00am - 5:00pm (M-F)

Phone: 414-768-6541
Fax: 414-768-6535

Engineering Directory

Mike Simmons
City Engineer

Design Manual

Cover & Table of Contents
Ch 1 - Admin. Procedures
Ch 2 - Approvals, Interpretations, Exceptions
Ch 3 - Grading Standards
Ch 4 - Storm Water Mgmt
Ch 5 - Storm Sewer & Open Channels
Ch 6 - Sanitary Sewer
Ch 7 - Water Dist. System
Ch 8 - Roadway Standards
Ch 9 - Street Lighting
Ch 10 - Landscaping
Ch 11 - Plan Standards

Engineering Department News and Information

From Your Oak Creek Engineering Department
Engineering Department

Project Description

The City of Oak Creek will be reconstructing and expanding W. Drexel Avenue from S. 27th Street to the I-94 overpass in 2012. The project will begin February 13 and continue through late November.

The project is a complete reconstruction of the two-lane asphalt roadway to a concrete four-lane divided boulevard. The project features a separated 10’-wide multi-use pathway along its north side, on-street bicycle accommodations, storm sewer, box culverts, street lighting, and traffic signal modifications along with additional turn lanes at 27th Street. [ more.... ]

From Your Oak Creek Engineering Department
MMSD

After the devastating floods of July 2010, MMSD established a $151 million program to help reduce the risk of basement backups by cutting down on massive volumes of excess water that get into sanitary sewers from homes and businesses. Significant amounts of water leak into cracked pipes on private property.... [ more.... ]

Engineering Department
Storm Water

Each parcel contributes a certain amount of run off to the City storm water management system. The more impervious area a parcel has, the more run off is generated from that parcel. The City Council adopted a storm water management system user charge to enable the City to fund some of its storm water needs. [more.....]

Engineering Department
Oak Creek is a Proud Member of the Root-Pike Watershed Initative Network
Root-Pike watershed Initative Network

Root-Pike WIN is a grassroots collaborative engaged in the activities listed here to meet its mission to protect, restore and sustain land and water resources in the Root River watershed, Pike River watershed and near shore Lake Michigan. | http://www.rootpikewin.org/index.php/keep-our-waters-clean.html

Engineering Department
Driveway Approach

Residential Driveway Approach Specifications