Seattle (Wash.). Engineering Dept. Engineering Services.
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The Seattle Engineering Department (SED) maintained the City's streets and bridges, designed and oversaw construction of public works projects, provided traffic and transportation planning, and operated the sewer and solid waste utility. The position of City Surveyor was created in 1873 to survey the City, establish boundaries and street grades, and administer condemnation processes. This position was renamed City Engineer in 1890.
In 1931, the Engineering Department absorbed part of the Department of Public Utilities, and in 1936, it assumed the responsibilities of the Department of Streets and Sewers and the Traffic Department. In 1997, the water, solid waste, drainage, and wastewater utilities from the Engineering and Water departments were merged with the Engineering Services Division of SED and the Customer Service Call Center and Construction Engineering Sections of City Light to form Seattle Public Utilities. The traffic and transportation functions of the Engineering Department were consolidated in the Seattle Transportation Department.
From the guide to the Bridge Records, 1902-1964, (Seattle Municipal Archives)
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Subjects:
- Ammonia industry
- Aqueducts
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Buildings
- Building sites
- Civic improvement
- Contractor
- Curbs
- Dams
- Earthquakes
- Eminent domain
- Express highway interchanges
- Express highways
- Fires
- Government contractors
- Hydroelectric power plants
- Hydroelectric power plants
- Irrigation
- Lacey V. Murrow Bridge (Mercer Island and Seattle, Wash.)
- Landslides
- Land use
- Public libraries
- Library buildings
- Methanol industry
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal engineering
- Municipal engineering
- Municipal franchises
- Park facilities
- Parks
- Parks
- Parks
- Pavement
- Pipelines
- Pipelines
- Public works
- Public works
- Quarries and quarrying
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Reservoirs
- Reservoirs
- Roads
- Roads
- Roads
- Roads
- Roads
- Sanitary landfills
- Seattle
- Sewerage
- Sidewalks
- Streets
- Streets
- Streets
- Streets
- Traffic engineering
- Transportation engineering
- Urbanization
- Waste disposal sites
- Waste products as fuel
- Water
- Waterfronts
- Waterfronts
- Water pipes
- Water-pipes
- Watershed
- Water treatment plants
- Water utilities
- Zoning
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Bridges
- Hydroelectric power plants
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal buildings
- Municipal engineering
- Parks
- Parks
- Pipelines
- Public works
- Reservoirs
- Roads
- Roads
- Roads
- Roads
- Streets
- Streets
- Streets
- Waterfronts
Occupations:
Places:
- Sixteenth Avenue Southwest Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Youngs, Lake (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Cedar River Watershed (King County, Wash.) (as recorded)
- R.H. Thomson Freeway (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Washington (State)--Seattle (as recorded)
- Diablo Dam (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Seattle (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Tolt River Watershed (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Beacon Hill (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Denny Hill (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Washington (State) (as recorded)
- First Avenue South Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Washington (State)--King County (as recorded)
- Egypt (as recorded)
- Fremont Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Ross Dam (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Skagit River (B.C. and Wash.) (as recorded)
- Seattle (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Tolt River Dam (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Ballard Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- West Seattle Freeway (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Landsburg Dam (Wash.) (as recorded)
- Twelfth Avenue South Bridge (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- West Seattle (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Lake Washington Ship Canal (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
- Volunteer Park (Seattle, Wash.) (as recorded)
