Capital Projects & Planning
The Department of Public Works (DPW) is responsible for managing the Town’s infrastructure assets, including its roads, intersections, water and sewer utilities, and drainage systems. Capital planning activities include programming and implementation of the Town’s Pavement Management Plan, Water System Study, and various sewer studies. The DPW also manages the Town’s Chapter 90 road program and is responsible for long term planning on corridors such as Common Street and Mount Auburn Street. Please monitor this section for project-specific updates.
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Common Street
The goal of this project is to provide a “complete streets” approach to the Common Street corridor to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety, improve traffic operations, and increase safety at the five-legged intersection of Common Street, Orchard Street, and Church Street.
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Community Path
The Watertown Community Path is a proposed multi-use path that will provide pedestrians and bicyclists with a safe and easily accessible route through much of Watertown.
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Edenfield Avenue Green Streets
Working with the Charles River Watershed Association, and with partial funding from EPA, the Town is reconstructing Edenfield Avenue using a “green streets” approach.
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Hosmer School Safe Routes to School
The goals of this project are to encourage elementary school students to walk and bike to school, and enhance safety for all users by providing a safe path of travel in the project area.
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MassDOT Pedestrian/Bike Improvement Project (PDF)
Learn more about MassDOT's pedestrian and biking improvements to Pleasant Street and Howard Street.
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Mount Auburn Street
The Town of Watertown is redesigning Mount Auburn Street to improve safety and better accommodate vehicles, transit, bicycles, and pedestrians.
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Watertown Complete Streets
A Complete Street is one that provides safe and accessible options for all travel modes – walking, biking, transit, and motorized vehicles – for people of all ages and abilities. Designing streets with these principles contributes toward the safety, health, economic viability and quality of life in a community by improving the pedestrian and vehicular environments and providing safer, more accessible and comfortable means of travel between home, school, work, recreation and retail destinations.
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Annual Road Program
Annual Road Program
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Belmont Street Reconstruction Project
The project is part of the City’s Complete Streets initiative to design and operate streets that are safe for all users including pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and public transit users.
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2019 Water Main Replacement
The Town annually and proactively replaces water mains whose size, age or condition make them vulnerable to unexpected service interruptions and costly repairs. The 2019 water main replacement project locations include Tappan Ave. and Piermont Street and are shown in the map below and listed beneath. The water mains on these streets will be upgraded to ductile iron pipe designed to the current Town of Watertown standards in order to continue providing high-quality water service to these areas.
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2019 Sewer Improvements
The Town of Watertown is undertaking a sanitary sewer improvement project in the 2019. The work includes installation of approximately 18,000 feet of cured-in-place (CIP) sewer pipe. This is commonly known as sewer lining. This process allows the contractor to reconstruct certain sections of badly deteriorated sewer “in place” rather than the traditional disruptive method of excavating and replacing the existing pipes.