OC Sanitation Construction Update

The Orange County Sanitation District (OCSD) will be working at night along Seal Beach Boulevard between North Gate Road and Westminster Boulevard. Crews will be onsite to perform utility investigation for the planning and design for the future Seal Beach Pump Station Project.

What to Expect

Utility investigation, or potholing, is the practice of digging a test hole to expose underground utilities. Residents may notice a slight increase in noise and activity as crews perform these work activities in the area. This work will be performed at night to minimize traffic impact and risk to construction crew with fewer drivers on the road.

Lane closures will be in place, but there will be at least one lane of travel open in each direction.

About the Seal Beach Pump Station Project

OCSD is in the design phase of a project that will replace the Seal Beach Pump Station located at the corner of Seal Beach and Westminster boulevards. The project is scheduled to begin construction in the summer of 2023. The project will replace the existing pump station within the current site and demolish the old pump station when the new one is completed. Pump stations are needed to lift flow from a low point to a high point when the lay of the land is not suitable to rely on gravity.

In this case, the Seal Beach Pump Station lifts the flow of wastewater to large regional sewer lines where wastewater eventually continues its way by gravity to OCSD’s facility in Fountain Valley.

There is current related construction on Westminster Boulevard.

That project is replacing three miles of regional sewer pipelines that start at the Seal Beach Pump Station and end at Rancho Road/ Hammon Place in the City of Westminster.

Visit www.ocsd.com/westminster for more information about that specific project.

The OCSD is a public agency that provides regional wastewater collection, treatment and recycling services for approximately 2.6 million people in central and northwest Orange County.

OCSD operates two facilities— Reclamation Plant No. 1 in Fountain Valley and Treatment Plant No. 2 in Huntington Beach—and 15 pump stations and treats an average of 189 million gallons of wastewater each day.