Road Maintenance Division

Steven T. Flude, P.E., Interim Director
Mel Reitz, Operations Manager

Road Maintenance performs most traditional Public Works functions, including:

• Maintenance and minor construction of the County's 200 bridges and its 1,675 total miles of County maintained streets and roads. (If those roads were laid end-to-end, they would reach from Everett to Green Bay, Wisconsin!);
• Response to emergencies such as floods, snow storms, wind storms, road accidents and spills;
• Production of road materials from County-owned pits and quarries;
• Under the direction of Surface Water Management, the maintenance and minor construction of off-road system water control and retention systems and levees along rivers and major streams in the county;
• Maintenance and minor construction of the division's yards, properties and buildings at the Cathcart Way Operations Center, Arlington, Sand Hill Pit & Quarry and elsewhere;
• Assistance in the maintenance of other County facilities such as solid waste drop boxes, transfer stations, fairgrounds and parks facilities under intra-governmental agreements; and
• Assistance in the maintenance of other governmental facilities such as Snohomish County PUD's roads and parking lots, plus various City streets, bridges and other municipal facilities under inter-local governmental agreements.

Major program areas include:

• Road-shoulder maintenance and vegetation control;
• Sub-grade repair, patching, maintenance paving and chip sealing;
• Ditch, culvert and water retention system cleaning and repair;
• Bridge maintenance;
• Traffic control device installation and maintenance such as signs, striping, crosswalks, arrows, buttons, guardrails and jersey barriers;
• Roadside installation and maintenance such as retaining walls, river and stream slope improvements;
• Small day labor construction projects;
• Road Closures: Emergency, Weight Restricted and Seasonal;
• Noxious Weeds;
• Potholes; and
• Water over roadway

Contact Us:

• Call: (425) 388-7500 or Toll Free: 1-800-562-4367
• Visit: 
  • Administrative Office/District II Shop (South County)
    Cathcart Way Operations Center
    8915 Cathcart Way, Snohomish, WA 98296
    Administrative Office Hours: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm / M-F
    Shop Hours: 6:30 am - 5:00 pm / M-TH
    
  • District I Shop (North County)
    Arlington Road Maintenance
    19620 67th Avenue NE, Arlington, WA 98223
    Shop Hours: 6:30 am - 5:00 pm / M-TH
    
• Please send an Email to report a problem or concern.