Overview of Engineering

Our mission is to provide efficient, centralized, and cost-effective municipal engineering services for the City's many infrastructure projects and for all city-wide departments.

Services

Our services include engineering design, contract administration, construction administration and observation. As well as professional expertise in the planning and design of improvements to new and existing roadways, public water and sanitary sewer facilities. In addition, the Engineering Department also provides:

• Subdivision Development including plan review and construction inspection of private residential, commercial and industrial developments.
• Right of Way Acquisition by obtaining real property to establish necessary public improvements such as roads, water and sewer utility lines, and public facilities.
• Floodplain Management, through the administration of the City's ordinance related to preserving the floodplains in order to mitigate losses during natural disasters such as heavy rain events and hurricanes.
• Construction Management through on-site inspection and quality control of all construction activities related to capital improvement projects. This also includes utility coordination and conflict resolution necessary to complete projects within budgetary and time constraints.
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) oversees all of the geospatial data and technology for the City of Edinburg, whether it be in GIS or AutoCAD format. This information includes, but is not limited to, Capital Projects, addressing, street data management, development, infrastructure, and planning & zoning information.