Sweetwater is fortunate to be blessed with great services. As a smaller community, we are one of the smallest communities, if not the smallest, to operate a fulltime professional fire and emergency services department. As the County seat of Nolan County, we not only have the Sweetwater Police Department, we also have the Nolan County Sheriff’s Department and an office for the Texas Department of Transportation (DPS). Sweetwater also operates a full service hospital and 24 hour emergency care to name a few of the services offered.
- Crime prevention
- Investigation of crimes and accidents
- Operates a communications service that includes 9-1-1 service for all of Nolan County
- Employee training and records maintenance
- Basic and advanced rescue procedures
- Ambulance transports to various medical facilities
- Basic and advanced pre-hospital care to sick and injured persons
- Fire suppression and cause determination
- Hazardous materials response
- Employee training and records maintenance
- Providing security for the operation of county and district courts;
- Enforcing traffic laws, other county ordinances and other state laws;
- Service of process;
- Accepting bail for prisoners in his custody;
- Conducting sales of seized and unclaimed properties;
- Taking charge of and responsibility for the county jail and prisoners.
- Employee training and records maintenance
- 24 hour emergency care
- Advanced radiology services including CT scanning and MRIs
- Outpatient lab
- Physical therapy
- Surgical services
- Swing bed services
- Patient education
- Home Health, Home Health Alternative and Assistive Services (CBA, FC, PHC)
- Operates two treated water pump stations, standpipes, and elevated storage tank
- Watershed Patrol
- Maintenance of 34 municipal water wells, approximately 3,000 acres of city owned well field property, and 1,300 acres of leased property
- Septic Tank inspection
- Owns and operates Lake Sweetwater, Oak Creek Lake, and Lake Trammel
- Code enforcement at all three city owned lakes
- Commercial and residential refuge collections
- Refuge disposial and recycling
- Paved asphault runways in good condition (1 – 5840 ‘ x 100’ & 1 – 1780’ x 30’)
- Medium intensity runway edge lights
- Elevation – 2380 feet / 725.4 meters
- Fuel available on site
- 19 aircraft based on the field
- Hanger facilities available
- Former training location for the Womens Air Force Service Pilots during WWII
