Engineering/Environmental Services

Water Reclamation and Sewer Section

SEWER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

REHABILITATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGED SEWER SYSTEM - PHASE 5.  The City is in the process of completing the fifth and final stage of a major project to rehabilitate parts of the City’s sanitary sewer system that were damaged during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Phases 2 through 5 were funded with a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Phase 5 includes the lining of 36,955 linear feet of sewer pipe to seal cracks and prevent new damage.

NORTH OUTFALL SEWER CONNECTION.  The City of Burbank is in the beginning stages of a project to construct a new connection to the City of Los Angeles’s North Outfall Sewer (NOS) at the intersection of Beachwood Drive and Valleyheart Drive. The NOS conveys sewage slated for final treatment at the City of Los Angeles’s Hyperion Treatment Plant.

CCTV.  The City of Burbank is undergoing the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) inspection of its sanitary sewer pipes.  Many of the pipes will be inspected at night when sewage flow is the lowest.  This CCTV inspection will allow the city to discover any damage in the City's sewer system.