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Long Beach receives update on sewer consolidation; pipeline and marsh restoration work underway
Summary
Engineers told the council the city’s wastewater treatment plant will be converted to an influent pump station and a 24-inch force main will carry flows to the South Shore plant. Construction is scheduled through 2027 with major disturbance of park areas expected to end this summer.
City officials and the engineering team gave the Long Beach City Council a progress report on the sewer consolidation project, which will convert the city’s wastewater treatment plant into a storm- and flood-hardened pump station and send treated flow through a new force main to a county facility for higher-level treatment.
Eric Mills, representing Hazen (the joint-venture contractor), said the project’s core work includes converting the plant’s influent pump station, installing an equalization tank to manage seasonal flow swings, and building a 24-inch force main using horizontal directional drilling in three segments.
Mills said the first HDD segment — from The Mainland area over to Pearsall’s Hassock —…
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