City of Florence Public Works Department

Our Mission

The Public Works department is dedicated to professionally maintaining and improving the current infrastructure of water, sewer, storm, street, airport and park services, to the highest possible standards for our community. We will continually look ahead to plan for and provide services that will allow the City of Florence to meet its future goals.

The Public Works Department for the City of Florence has 23 full time employees, plus seasonal employees as available. The department’s use of Public Works best practices has allowed the City of Florence to move forward with capital improvement projects to maintain, improve, and expand public works infrastructure projects that meet community and environmental needs even as we are faced with tight budgets.

Did you know?

Florence has a population of 9,832 as of July 2023.
There are 3922 water and sewer connections.
Florence has 66.29 miles of water transmission and distribution system pipes and 4.5 million gallons of storage.
There are 79.2 lane miles of streets.
Florence has 69.43 miles of sanitary sewer lines, 39 pump stations, and 30 STEP Systems.
There are 33.51 miles of Stormwater system lines.
The parks department maintains over 197 acres of park land at 22 different sites.

Current Florence Weather: The Public Works weather station has Florence weather history, including temperature, dew point, humidity, precipitation (including accumulation and rate), wind speed, wind gust, wind direction, pressure, and solar radiation.  View weather history in graph or table format.  Choose specific dates and times to customize your information.

Yearly/Monthly Rainfall Report: Monthly and Annual rainfall amounts since 1957 are available to view and download.