West Reading Public Works

West Reading Public Works Public Works Department handles just about anything you can think of in the Borough.

From Building maintenance/ streets/ grass cutting/ parks and rec/ water/ sewer/ snow removal/ to tree trimming and the list goes on. The Crew work very hard for the Borough maintaining it to the excellent standards that we require. Crews are typically available 7-330 Monday through Friday, after hours calls can be directed to the non emergency number at 610-373-0111 and someone will be dispatched if needs handling right away.

02/22/2024

Today, we were fortunate enough to catch another independent sewer service company trying to take advantage of another innocent resident. They told them, like at least a dozen other residents we have heard from and helped, that their sewer line was broken and needed to be replaced. Today's would-be victim was told $44,000 to fix the issue. We have caught companies trying to charge up to $57,000 down to as little as $5,000. Today's resident called us and explained what the contractor told them, so we went down and jetted their service line. We also video-taped the line only to find out their line was fine. Council has taken the steps they have and allowed us to service the property owners' sewer lateral line because contractors are taking advantage of innocent residents. If you look at your water/sewer bill this what that $5 service fee is for. Council was concerned when they found out what was happening to their residents, so they came up with this new policy. We are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If you have any issues, please call us first. There is no additional charge other than your normal water/sewer bill. Please watch out for your neighbors in case they have any issues as well. We are our brother's keeper, and we want to protect our friends, neighbors, and family from being taken advantage of. Thank you, The WR Boro Crew

Hello residents and business peeps of West Reading, Tomorrow with the potential of Winter weather... conflicting reports...
03/11/2022

Hello residents and business peeps of West Reading, Tomorrow with the potential of Winter weather... conflicting reports are spilling in of 1-3" or possibly 3-6". If the weather decides to give us the more of the two, anything more than 4" qualifies for the need of a SNOW EMERGENCY.... Please pay attention to the media, social media and police vehicles making announcements to get vehicles off of the SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTES. Check the signs on your streets where you are parked and know ahead of time.
As always, we are here to help you and keep the roads open and clear for you and emergency services.
Thank you in advance, Your Borough Crew.

03/01/2022

Residents in the area of Ann Street. Be on the look out, Borough Crew will be in there tomorrow to start taking down the smaller of the big trees (Zelcova's) as a cost saving measure. A contractor will be scheduled to remove the two big guys.... Then of course we will plant similar to what was planted on the opposite side of Ann. Please keep in mind the reasoning of removing these trees. They've outgrown their respective area, and are disrupting many of the services in the planting strip (can't get to sewer lines when a sewer stop occurs and forcing more regular sewer stops)
Shade tree commission is always trying to save our trees, we had looked at several options for these trees. Unfortunately this is our only recourse. The new trees on the other side took very well, so we're hopeful to get these new ones in next year after the old root system is in it's decay stage.
Thanks in advance and we love to keep our residents in the know of what's going on.
Have a great day West Reading

Address

500 Chestnut Street
West Reading, PA

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 3:30pm
Thursday 7am - 3:30pm
Friday 7am - 3:30pm

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