Public Works Employees: Brian Cook: Maint. III Operator; Derek Payne: Maint. III Operator; Terry Ash: Cemetery Sexton; Daryl Jones: Maint. III Operator; Steve Woods: Public Works Superintendent; Jason Jordan: Maint. III Operator; Kendall Haley: Maint. III Operator/Mechanic

The Aurora Street Department
The Street Department maintains over 80 miles of streets and alleys in the City of Aurora.

Cemetery
The cemetery division is part of the Aurora Street Department, and is operated under the direction of Terry Ash, sexton since 1994.

Maple Park Cemetery was founded in 1900 with burials beginning in 1901-1902. Over 8,400 former residents of Aurora are resting in peace at Maple Park. In fact, the town's first Mayor, Carr McNatt, is buried at Maple Park. Although the cemetery was founded in 1900, the oldest grave dates back to 1892 and was transported from the " Aurora cemetery" to the new "Maple Park cemetery". To contact the cemetery, please call 678-2308. For more information on city fees and policies regarding burial, please click here.

Wastewater Department
The wastewater department consists of four employees and they are responsible for the operation and maintenance of the City's treatment facilities, collection system - including lift stations, yard waste area, and the recycling site.

The treatment facility is an activated sludge process consisting of a six influent pumps, a fine step bar screen, ram press, four clarifiers, two sand-filters, and uv-disinfectant. It has a design capacity of 2.0 MGD with a hydraulic capacity of 7.0 MGD.

The collection system consists of 48.6 miles of gravity sewer lines ranging from six inch diameter to twenty two inches, 939 manholes, 7 lift stations, and approximately 2.5 miles of force main lines.

At the recycling area we have two trailers where we accept items. One trailer is for paper items. The paper items that are acceptable are newspapers, books (paper and hard back), envelopes, slick sale ads, paper sacks, feed sacks (without plastic liner), boxes (not corrugated cardboard), etc. The other trailer is for plastic jugs (milk, orange juice, pop, water, etc), tin cans, and aluminum cans. We have recycling the fourth Saturday of every month. Hours are 8:00 to 11:00 April through October and 9:00 to 12:00 November through March.

In the yard waste area we accept tree limbs, leaves, grass, yard and garden plants. The yard and garden waste is made into compost and available to the residents on a first come basis. The area is open 7am to 4pm Monday thru Friday and the fourth Saturday of the month during the recycling time.

Aurora Street Department

Steve Woods
Public Works
Superintendent

Street Department
301 N. Highway 39
Aurora, MO 65605
417-678-4460
Hours of Operation: 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday - Friday

Wastewater Department

To contact the Wastewater Department, please call 678-3050. Staff for the department is:
Orvil Maples, Wastewater Superintendent;
Todd Wood, Operator III;
Steve Andrews, Operator III;
and Chris Mooneyham, Operator I.