Departments & Services

Public Works Department

Superintendent : Burt Rogers, Certified Arborist
tel: (843)774-0045
fax: (843)774-0046
wbrdillon@bellsouth.net

Fleet Maintenance : Dennis Ard
tel: (843)774-0045
fax: (843)774-0046

   

Streets and Beautification
The Street and Alley Maintenance is a division of the city's Public Works Department. Their primary responsibilities include:

  • Tree Maintenance: Planting, Pruning, and Removal
  • Lot Clearing
  • Drainage Maintenance
  • Care of the City's Highway and Right-of-Ways
  • Demolition of Condemned Structures
  • Street Sweeping
  • Sign Maintenance
  • Lettering of All City Vehicles
  • Christmas Lights
  • Flags
  • Mosquito Control

The Beautification division is a service that the city provides in an effort to present our city as a place that our community can be proud of. The responsibilities of this department is to provide:

  • Daily Litter Pickup
  • Mowing of City Right-of-Ways, Fire Department Building, City County Complex, Alleys, Dillon House, and the Dillon National Guard Armory.
   

Some Winter duties include:

  • Curb Edging
  • Shrubbery
  • Pruning
  • Continued Litter Control

There is 1 Superintendent (Burt Rogers), 4 Beautification Employees, and 6 Street Employees.

Contact Information
  Mailing Address
Dillon Public Works Dept.
PO Drawer 431
Dillon, SC 29536		 Office Location
501 S. 1st Avenue
Dillon, SC 29536		  
 

Office Hours
Monday - Friday
7 :00am to 4:00pm

 Contact Numbers
tel: (843)774-0045
fax: (843)774-0046
wbrdillon@bellsouth.net		  

   

Maintenance Shop
The City Maintenance Shop is also a division of the Public Works Department. This department maintains all the vehicles and equipment owned and operated by the city. There is a mechanic foreman and one equipment mechanic. Together they work on on approximately 73 vehicles, and equipment such as:

  • Lawn Mowers
  • Weed eaters
  • Chain Saws
  • Tractors
  • Backhoes

The city also has a variety of other projects that the Maintenance Shop gets involved with.

Contact Information
  Contact Numbers
tel: (843)774-0045
fax: (843)774-0046		 Office Hours
Monday - Friday
7:00am to 4:00pm		  

   

Tree City, USA
 City Public Works Crew displays “TREE CITY USA” patches on all uniforms.

Dillon County Applied Technology School’s Horticulture Department under the direction of Cliff Willbanks is growing an average of 200 trees per year for use in the City’s Urban Forestry Program.

  • Dillon “Tree City USA” designation 2003, 2004, 2005.
  • “Tree Growth Award” 2005, only 3 awarded in the state of SC, 523 nationally.
  • Project: Tech/City Tree Nursery Partnership (Information Coming Soon)

Burt Rogers becomes Certified Arborist. (view article) Pictured with Burt is Lois Edwards, Pee Dee Region Urban Forester with the SC Forestry Commission


City of Dillon won the “Acorn Award” in 2005 from the SC Urban Forestry Commission for outstanding work urban forestry.