Brian Olson, Public Works Director for the City of Edina, will be the program speaker at the Thursday, Oct. 15, Rotary Club of Edina meeting. He will give an update on the Public Works Department and projects in the city.
 
The Rotary Club of Edina meets Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. at the Edina Country Club. All are welcome. Cost for lunch and the program is $19 for adults, $12 for children.
 
The Rotary Club of Edina will welcome Brian Olson, Public Works Director for the City of Edina, as the program speaker at the Thursday, Oct. 15, meeting. He will speak about the Edina Public Works Department and projects in the city.
 
Olson grew up in the small town of  Marshfield, Wisconsin. He received his BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1992.
 
He has been the Director of Public Works for the City of Edina since 2012. Before that he was Director of Public Works and City Engineer for the City of Ramsey from 2000 to 2012. He also worked as a Civil Engineer for the City of New Brighton from 1992 to 2000. 
 
According to the city's website, Edina's infrastructure—its streets and curbs, storm and sanitary sewers, bridges, walking paths and sidewalks, water mains, hydrants, pumping stations and wells (all the behind-the-scenes equipment and structures that form the physical backbone of the City)—are in the care of the employees of Edina's Public Works Department.
 
The Public Works Department is comprised of the Streets (Bituminous and Concrete), Utilities, Electrical and Fleet Maintenance divisions. Employees of each of these divisions efficiently and responsibly care for: 
  • 230 miles of roadway
  • 18 deep water wells
  • 4 water treatment plants
  • 4 water towers with a three million-gallon total capacity
  • 4 million gallons of water in underground reservoir
  • 23 sanitary sewer lift stations
  • 11 storm sewer lift stations 80 miles of storm sewer mains
  • 180 miles of sanitary sewer mains
  • 200 miles of water mains 25 miles of sidewalk and eight miles of walking paths
  • 3 municipal parking ramps
  • $8 million in rolling stock (vehicles and equipment), including automobiles, mowers, trucks of every description, snowplows, street sweepers, fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars.
 
The Rotary Club of Edina meets Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. at the Edina Country Club. All are welcome. Cost for lunch and the program is $19 for adults, $12 for children.