Sewer, storm, water main, treatment plant. One contractor.
Municipal vacuum services, sewer cleaning, lift station rehabilitation, hydro excavation, and emergency response — supporting public works departments and utility districts across Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and the surrounding region.
Lines break. We answer.
Water main breaks at 2 a.m. don’t wait for business hours. Neither do sewer backups, lift station failures, or storm-drain emergencies. Our 24/7 dispatch is built for the calls public works directors hate to make.
Built for public works realities.
Municipal contracting is its own thing. Budget cycles run year-to-year. Crews are stretched thin. The work is split between routine maintenance and emergency calls that come in at the worst possible time. And every job has to be defensible to a council, a board, or a state regulator who’ll be reviewing the invoices.
Quick Response has been working with cities, utility districts, and public works departments across the Ohio Valley region for 30+ years. We carry the certifications municipal procurement requires (DOT, OSHA Hazwoper, $2M general liability), the equipment to handle the breadth of municipal work (vacuum trucks, hydro excavation, hydroblasting, pressure cleaning), and the 24/7 response capability for the inevitable after-hours calls.
The full envelope of public works support.
What our crews handle for municipal customers:
- Sanitary sewer cleaning — root cutting, debris removal, sludge recovery, hydro-jetting
- Storm drain cleaning & rehab — catch basins, mains, outfalls, debris removal
- Lift station cleanout — wet wells, dry wells, pump pit cleaning, sludge removal
- Water main break response — vacuum dewatering, hydro excavation, restoration support
- Treatment plant cleaning — clarifiers, digesters, sludge ponds, equalization basins
- Manhole rehabilitation — cleaning, sealing, structural repair support
- Catch basin cleaning — sediment, debris, hydrocarbons
- Hydro excavation — utility location, water main repair, fiber installation support
- Hazmat response — public ROW spills, illicit discharges, abandoned waste
What public works directors call us for.
Day-to-day municipal work splits roughly into four buckets. We’re set up for all of them:
Scheduled sewer line cleaning, catch basin work, lift station cleanouts. Annual or quarterly programs.
Water main breaks, sewer backups, lift station failures. 24/7 dispatch with crews mobilizing within minutes.
I&I investigation, manhole rehabilitation, treatment plant cleanouts during scheduled maintenance windows.
Post-event debris removal, storm drain restoration, contaminated runoff containment.
What we bring to the public ROW.
Municipal work requires the same equipment range as industrial cleanup, but adapted for streets, ROWs, and treatment facilities:
- Vacuum trucks — wet/dry industrial Vactor and Super Products units for sewer and sludge work
- Hydro excavator — Mud Dog 1200 for non-destructive excavation around buried utilities
- Hydro-jetting capability — for sewer line and storm drain cleaning
- Confined space gear — manhole entry, lift station rescue standby, atmospheric monitoring
- Containment supplies — for spill response in public ROW
- DOT-permitted transport — manifested disposal of sludge, debris, contaminated water
- 24/7 dispatch — real human answers, crews mobilize within minutes
Why public works keeps us on speed dial.
What separates us from the typical regional environmental contractor when it comes to municipal work:
What you get with Quick Response
- One vendor for routine + emergency — same crews handle scheduled maintenance and 2 a.m. lift station calls
- 30+ years working with municipalities in the Ohio Valley region — we know how procurement and POs work
- $2 million general liability — meets every municipality’s insurance requirements
- OSHA Hazwoper trained — required for lift station work, treatment plant entries, hazmat response
- DOT-permitted disposal — full chain of custody for manifested waste streams
- Centrally located in Greenup, KY — most of the region within mobilization range
250-mile mobilization radius.
Our Greenup, Kentucky base lets us serve cities, towns, and utility districts across Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and into Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Tennessee. For ongoing maintenance contracts and large projects we mobilize beyond our standard radius — call to scope.
Ready when the line breaks.
30+ years working with cities, utility districts, and public works departments.