BPU 101
Over 3,000 miles of pipes supply this element to households and businesses throughout Wyandotte County.
What is water?
The people who work on power lines by climbing poles are working on bucket trucks.
What is a Lineman? (Lineworker)
The county seat of Wyandotte County, and is also the most populated city in the county.
What is Kansas City, KS?
This KCK neighborhood also known as the "Silver City" is home to a mural that depicts the history of the former township.
What is Argentine?
This shopping center is a tourist attraction in western Wyandotte County.
This element that BPU provides to Wyandotte County is produced using either Coal, Wind, Gas, Hydro power, or Solar
What is Electricity?
This department at BPU works on the computers, networks, provides cybersecurity, and works on web-based applications.
What is Information Technology (IT)?
The smallest city in Wyandotte County, and the only city in Wyandotte and Johnson counties.
What is Lake Quivira?
This neighborhood has a historic arch and is the home to the only Drive-In theater in KCK.
What is Rosedale?
This gas station BBQ joint has been recognized nationally.
What is Joe's KC? (Oklahoma Joes)
The local government that BPU provides over $8 million in electric and water services for at no charge.
What is the Unified Government of Kansas City, KS (UG)?
These problem solvers design substations, water systems, energy grids, and even power plants.
What is an engineer?
These two cities combine with both Kansas City, KS and Lake Quivira to form the Unified Government in 1997.
What are Bonner Springs and Edwardsville?
This KCK neighborhood settled by Eastern European immigrants was named after the fruit that grew in the area.
What is Strawberry Hill?
A former stop on the Underground Railroad, this KCK monument was once home to the first Black college west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Quindaro Ruins?
This BPU job, which is now done digitally, had employees visit every house in the city to see how much energy and water was used.
What is a Meter Reader?
The Wyandot Indians, who the county is named after, moved here from this state.
What is Ohio?
This neighborhood was once known as "Farmer Kansas", and was incorporated into KCK in 1966.
What is Turner?
This park is located at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri river, and was a campsite of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
What is Kaw Point Park?