The Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office

Organizational Duties

Under the auspices of the Board of County Commissioners, the Engineer's Office is responsible for the maintenance and reconstruction of 220 bridges and assisting municipalities with the improvement of 794 miles of County roadway. It also maintains 22 miles of roadway in the County's two Townships.

Major bridges under the County Engineer's jurisdiction, in the City of Cleveland, are the Veterans Memorial; Harvard Denison; Hope Memorial; Brooklyn-Brighton; and Burton Memorial (Main Avenue), Ohio's longest bridge. In suburban communities, County bridges include Detroit Road in Lakewood and Rocky River; Northfield Road in Bedford; Lorain Road in Fairview Park and Cleveland; Brookpark Road in Fairview Park; Hilliard Road in Lakewood and Rocky River; Rockside Road in Maple Heights; Clifton-West Lake in Lakewood and Rocky River; and Broadway Whitehouse Crossing in Garfield Heights.

The County Engineer's Office provides a variety of engineering, construction and land record keeping sevices. They include preparation of road and bridge construction plans; bridge inspections; project planning; environmental research; funding appropriation; construction management; road and bridge maintenance; traffic studies; vehicular counts; geodetic surveys; tax map revisions; Geographic Information Service (GIS) management; government and public relations; and publication of the official County Map.

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and was last updated on Thursday, January 03, 2008.

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