More construction to come

Bryce Alderton

The price of sewer line repairs is the aggravation of road

construction. Something drivers in Huntington Beach can expect a lot of

this spring while the Orange County Sanitation District installs a larger

sewer pipeline.

The district will begin installing a 108-inch concrete pipeline in May

that will extend from its plant at Brookhurst Street in Huntington Beach

to an existing pump station at Bushard Street and Ellis Avenue in

Fountain Valley.

The new pipe replaces the current 54-inch pipe and is necessary to

provide additional sewage capacity for surrounding cities, said Sonja

Wassgren, a district public information officer.

The pipe is one of nine sewer lines within the district’s existing

service area that will be replaced.

Construction is expected to take 18 months and will start at the

plant, go north along Brookhurst Street to Banning Avenue, west on

Banning, then north on Bushard Street and continue to Ellis Avenue.

Crews will dig trenches to install the pipeline in quarter and

half-mile sections and will close roads in each section for two to three

weeks. Traffic will be rerouted while one lane of traffic will be open

for cars traveling both east and west on cross streets at each

intersection.