Fonds / Collection

Corporation of Delta Fonds - Engineering Sous-Fonds B.

Description Level

Sous-Fonds.

GMD

Textual Record.

Date Range

1971-2009.

Parallel Title

City of Delta Fonds - Engineering Sous-Fonds B.

Fonds Number

PR-4.

Accession Number

2016-015. 2016-018. A12-1-B-2.

Language

English.

Physical Description

33 cm of textual records. 128 photograph prints: col.

History / Biographical

The Engineering Department provides a range of public works services in the areas of transportation, water, sewer, drainage, irrigation, solid waste and recycling. The Department also maintains the corporate fleet that includes trucks and construction-related equipment. The Engineering Department includes the following divisions: Administrative & Customer Services, Design & Construction, Operations, Land Development & Special Projects, Transportation, and Utilities. Administrative and Customer Services manages the City’s switchboard and reception services and provides customer service support, including processing service requests and preparing public permits related to highway use, tree cutting, lawn watering, hydrant use, special events, and filming. Design and Construction is responsible for the annual capital infrastructure upgrade program, along with design drafting and corporate survey services, including construction lay-out and record surveys. Operations represents the outside City workforce responsible for providing a range of public works, maintenance and construction services, including horticultural and tree services, parks/sports field maintenance, and snow and ice control. Land Development and Special Projects liaises with external agencies regarding the delivery of key engineering infrastructure projects and administers engineering requirements for land developments and building permit projects. Transportation provides planning, management and replacement programs for City transportation infrastructure and related facilities, and plans and budgets for the Neighbourhood Road Improvements Plan. Utilities provides long-range planning, management and replacement programs for water, sewer, drainage, irrigation and flood protection, and delivers solid waste and recycling services.

Scope and Content

This sous-fonds consists of records created and received by the Engineering Department of the Corporation of Delta/City of Delta, and its predecessors. The sous-fonds contains records arising from various functions of the Engineering Department, such as the construction and/or maintenance of roads, wharves, railways, water lines, sewers, and natural gas lines. The sous-fonds is arranged into 25 series that correspond to the Records Classification System and Retention Schedule: 24, 2370 - Lands Managed by Delta - Maintenance; 25, 5000 - Engineering and Public Works - General; 23, 5030 - Engineering and Public Works - Education Programs; 22, 5120 - Drainage - Dredging; 10, 5200 - Roads and Transportation - General; 2, 5220 - Roads and Transportation - Corridors and Intersections; 21, 5230 - Roads and Transportation - Fencing; 20, 5240 - Roads and Transportation - Lighting; 4, 5260 - Roads and Transportation - Sidewalks/Crosswalks; 5, 5270 - Roads and Transportation - Traffic Control; 19, 5280 - Roads and Transportation - Trucking; 18, 5320 - Survey - Capital Projects; 6, 5400 - Utility Systems - General; 1, 5440 - Utilities - Sanitary Sewers; 7, 5460 - Utility Systems - External; 17, 5480 - Utilities - Metro Vancouver/Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD); 8, 5500 - Waste Management - General; 16, 5520 - Waste Management - Garbage; 15, 5560 - Waste Management - Recycling; 14, 5600 - Water Supply and Distribution - General; 3, 13400 - Transportation - Planning - General; 11, 13420 - Transportation - Planning - Bus Transit; 13, 13440 - Transportation - Planning - Cycling (Bicycle); 9, 13460 - Transportation - Planning - Ports and Waterways; and 12, 13500 - Transportation - Planning - Rapid Transit.

Notes

Title based on the provenance of the sous-fonds. Dates based on the dates present in the sous-fonds. Sous-fonds split into Sous-Fonds A and Sous-Fonds B to differentiate the ownership of the records between the Delta Heritage Society (Sous-Fonds A) and the City of Delta (Sous-Fonds B).

Acquisition Source

2016-015 and 2016-018 were a part of larger transfer of records by the Clerk's Department.

Name Access

Engineering.

Subject Access

Municipal Government.

Geographic Access

Delta.

Category

PR.

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