Editing Dodge City, Kansas (section)

===Utilities===
The Utilities Division of the city government's Public Works Department operates and maintains the city's water and waste water distribution systems.<ref>{{cite web | title = Utilities Division | publisher = City of Dodge City, Kansas | url = http://www.dc3.edu/sports/index.htm | access-date = October 29, 2011 | archive-date = November 8, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111108065213/http://www.dc3.edu/sports/index.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> The department's Sanitation Division provides trash pickup.<ref>{{cite web | title = Sanitation Division | publisher = City of Dodge City, Kansas | url = http://www.dodgecity.org/index.aspx?NID=112 | access-date = October 29, 2011}}</ref> Operations Management International, Inc. (OMI), a private contractor, provides waste water treatment, pumping the city's waste water to treatment holding ponds 12 miles south of the city.<ref>{{cite web | title = Wastewater Treatment Division | publisher = City of Dodge City, Kansas | url = http://www.dodgecity.org/index.aspx?NID=114 | access-date = October 29, 2011}}</ref> The Victory Electric Cooperative Association, Inc., part of the Mid-Kansas Electric Company, delivers electricity to the city.<ref>{{cite web | title = About Us | publisher = Victory Electric Cooperative Association, Inc. | url = http://www.victoryelectric.net/about_us.html | access-date = October 29, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120201013520/http://www.victoryelectric.net/about_us.html | archive-date = February 1, 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = About Us | publisher = Mid-Kansas Electric Company, LLC | url = http://www.midkansaselectric.net/ | access-date = October 29, 2011}}</ref> Local residents primarily use natural gas as their heating fuel; natural gas service is provided by [[Black Hills Energy]].<ref name=CityData/><ref>{{cite web | title = Black Hills Corporation to Acquire Aquila's Gas Utility Operations in Kansas | publisher = [[Black Hills Energy]] | date = February 7, 2007 | url = http://www.blackhillscorp.com/ir/bhc/020607KS.pdf | access-date = October 29, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120421031919/http://www.blackhillscorp.com/ir/bhc/020607KS.pdf | archive-date = April 21, 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>