DPW Press Releases

The NH Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) held its annual Drinking Water Source Protection Conference in Pembroke, NH on May 16, 2023, with more than 200 NH water works operators attending.

UPDATE: Market Street between Bow and Market Square is now REOPENED to vehicles, day and night. Businesses are OPEN and pedestrian traffic continues. Parking limits still in effect.

Starting Monday May 8, 2023, the DPW sewer line work on Market Street in conjunction with the ongoing utility code compliance project between Bow and Daniel Streets requires closing the street completely overnight for several days that week.

The City of Portsmouth DPW Water Division has published the FY23 Third Quarter Portsmouth & Pease Water Systems Drinking Water Quality Report, posted on the City website.

The City of Portsmouth's Mosquito Control Program begins monitoring on April 10, 2023. Crews from Dragon Mosquito Control, Inc., the City’s contracted service, will be checking swamps, salt marshes, woodland pools, ditches, catch basins and other shallow, stagnant water for mosquito larvae.

When mosquito larvae are found, treatment may occur using one or more of the following:

The Portsmouth Department of Public Works will hold its biannual meeting on Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at the Public Works facility at 680 Peverly Hill Road. Residents of Portsmouth, Greenland and Newington are encouraged to bring household chemicals for safe disposal between 8 am and 12 noon. Proof of residency is required.

Household hazardous waste collections help residents safely dispose of items that can harm their health, the environment and drinking water supplies.

The City of Portsmouth Department of Public Works has adjusted its trash collection cancellation notification plans so that when there is a forecast indicating a plowable (2+ inches) snow event a notice of the cancellation of next day’s trash collection will be issued the evening before trash pickup and will coincide with an Advance Parking Ban Announcement. This notice will also request that no trash or recycling receptacles be left on the curb that might interfere with snow operations. 

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The City of Portsmouth Department of Public Works is holding a public meeting on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 to present and gather feedback on proposed traffic calming measures on Woodbury Avenue. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 pm at New Franklin School (1 Franklin Drive, Portsmouth).

CAPTION: The City of Portsmouth celebrated Arbor Day in 2022 by planting trees around the city.