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Cerritos staff outline $25M in water projects and emergency repair for damaged C‑4 well

Cerritos Community Safety Committee (Cerritos City) · January 22, 2026
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Cerritos Director of Public Works Alvin Papa told the Community Safety Committee the city faces roughly $25 million in water projects and $4 million in sewer needs, and described an emergency repair to the C‑4 well (approved Dec. 22) that will cost about $600,000 and is expected to start mobilizing in February.

Cerritos Director of Public Works Alvin Papa told the Community Safety Committee on Jan. 21 that the city’s water and sewer systems—built largely in the 1970s—are reaching the end of their design life and require major capital work.

"The most important project of all of those is the C‑4 well and treatment system that needs to be built," Papa said, laying out an inventory that includes four wells, about 172 miles of water pipe and roughly 146 miles of sewer pipe. He told the committee the city has identified…

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