Water Treatment Facility to be Constructed near Long Beach Airport

Hard hats and shovels at the groundbreaking ceremony

On Monday, December 12, 2016, representatives from Long Beach Airport, the City of Long Beach, the City of Signal Hill, and CalTrans gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony for a storm water capture and treatment facility located southeast of the Airport.

Airport Director Romo and other Airport representatives

The Los Cerritos Channel Sub-Basin 4 Storm Water Capture project is one of multiple construction projects occurring around the Airport. The project is also one of six projects around the airport focused on water capture and treatment. Upon completion, the facility will be able to collect 120 acre-feet of storm and rain water. The water capture and treatment facility will trap zinc and copper fragments from storm water to prevent them from entering the Los Cerritos Channel. Subsidized by an $11 million grant from CalTrans, the total cost of the project is $50 million.

Representatives from the City of Signal Hill pose in their hard hats.

The facility will be located away from public view and construction should not impact Airport operations. The contractor must abide by a vertical clearance so that equipment and stockpiles do not block flight paths; construction that requires tall equipment must be completed after the Airport’s main runway (30/12) closes in the evening. The project is expected to be completed by December 2017.