The Department of Public Works provides essential services to the 41,000 residents of Kearny.

Overall, responsibilities of the DPW include the maintenance of 48 miles of paved roads including:

• Street sweeping
• Snow plowing and ice control
• Traffic line painting
• Traffic sign and street name sign maintenance
• 3 sanitary water pump stations
• 4 storm water pump stations
• 6,000+ feet of drainage ditches
• 3 tide gates on the Passaic River
• 1,000+ catch basins and manholes
• Municipal Recycling Drop-Off Center
• Building maintenance at all municipal buildings
• 2,000+ trees planted on municipal right of ways and municipal parks
• 90 miles of sewers

Attention residents

• Latex paints will no longer be accepted during the household hazardous cleanout. You must dry out the cans with cat litter until the paint is fully absorbed and in a solid state which then can be disposed of in regular garbage.
• Alkaline batteries can now be thrown out in regular garbage as they no longer contain lead.
• Rechargeable batteries will still be accepted during the household hazardous cleanout, however you must put tape over the contacts on the batteries as they can explode and cause a fire.
• All mattresses or box springs put out for garbage collection must be wrapped in plastic.
  Maintenance and repair of 100+ vehicles and pieces of equipment