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Home My WebLink AboutSS2 - Irvine Ranch Water DistrictAgenda Item No. SS2 July 25, 2006 W ares D-STRICT Briefing for Newport Beach City Council July 25, 2006 I7°°°�' l About Irvine Ranch Water District WATERDISTRKT R D Service Area 0 UNINCORPORATED COUNTY ORANGE LAKE FOREST TUSTIN SANTA IRVINE ANA COSTA MESA LAGUNA BEACH unxcoxrort�no caurm NEWPORT BEACH • Core Services: • Water • Wastewater • Urban Runoff Treatment • Recycled Water • Population Served: 324,500 including Newport Coast and Santa Ana Heights • Service Connections: 92,800 • Size of District: 179 square miles 1 2 E DIC RANCH Projects In or Affecting Newport Beach • Buck Gully Runoff Reduction Project • Synthetic Turf Demonstration Sites • Newport Coast Drive Force Main Project • San Joaquin Reservoir • Natural Treatment System Update 2 3 IRVINE IC RANCH Buck Gully Runoff Reduction Project • IRWD conducted pre- retrofit flow and water quality monitoring at four locations in the Buck Gully watershed • Last spring, 56 weather - based irrigation controllers installed at six sites within the Buck Gully watershed • Installed devices control irrigation for nearly 90% of landscaped area in the Buck Gully 3 4 IRVINE IC RANCH Buck Gully Runoff Reduction Project • Flow monitoring equipment installed at: • All six retrofit sites • Fifth Street & Poppy • Little Corona Beach • Collecting weekly dry season flow data and water quality samples • City doing parallel runoff reduction work in Buck Gully (Pelican Hill) • IRWD and City staff coordination efforts • Analysis of data in Fall 2006 / Winter 2007 • Final Report in Spring 2007 4 5 IRVINE RICT Synthetic Turf Demonstration Project • Synthetic turf installed at IRWD's Sand Canyon office as demonstration • IRWD also partnered with cities to develop other demonstration sites: • Newport Beach • Irvine • Lake Forest ■ Tustin 5 6 EDICT Synthetic Turf Demonstration Project • City of Newport Beach demonstration site ■ 1,320 square feet of synthetic turf at Bonita Canyon Sports Park ■ Articles in the O. C. Register, Irvine World News, IRWD's "Pipelines" ■ City's "Clean Water Newport" Website ■ IRWD's Website IRYIHERANCH Newport Coast Drive Force Main Project WATERWRKT • Project to replace sewer main between Ridge Park and Pelican Hill Road North • Schedule for Project Completion: • Install Shoring • Tie into Lift Station ■ Construct Manhole (in Bike Lane) ■ Final Pave and Sidewalk Repairs ■ Complete Landscaping July 28 August 7 August 18 August 21 August 28 7 8 IRVINE RANCH WATERDIS ICT San Joaquin Reservoir • Converted empty drinking water reservoir to recycled water reservoir • Capacity: 1 billion gallons • Retrofit construction completed February 2005 • Work this coming winter includes improving access roads from Ford Road and from Chambord Road 8 9 W Natural Treatment System - San Joaquin Marsh • IRWD's San Joaquin Marsh improves water quality in Upper Newport Bay • Marsh system removes from San Diego Creek Pci approximately: ■ 75,000 pounds of nitrogen per year ■ 10,000 pounds of phosphorus per year ■ 3,000 pounds of trash per year • In addition, nearly 50,000 tons of sediment are removed from San Diego Creek 9 10 Slide 10 PCl Paul Cook, 07/25/2006 11 ED�KT) Natural Treatment System Update Newport m 0 Tustin A e. 1O u a Irvine a� �•• r � !i A-10 jqk• Fyiresr • 31 additional wetlands in San Diego Creek Watershed • Now constructed/ hydroseeded: ■ Quail Springs (Shady Canyon Dr. & 405) ■ Laguna Plain Wetland (Laguna Cyn. Rd. & 405) ■ Needlegrass Marsh (Quail Hill area) ■ Turtle Ridge North (Shady Cyn. Near Bonita Cyn.) • Final design underway on additional sites: —El Modena Park, Orange — Caltrans Yard, Irvine — Cienega site, Irvine — Woodbridge In -Line Basins 10 12 W UDM) Irvine Ranch Water District Questions? 11 13