If you have been on Pacific Coast Highway and looked towards Captain Jack’s on Broadway Avenue in Sunset Beach, you’ll notice some construction. Two projects are taking place.
Southern California Edison is putting in a new vault. “This shows the commitment from SCE to maintain reliability of one of our most essential needs: electricity,” said Huntington Beach City Councilman Patrick Brenden.
The Sunset Beach Sanitary District also is involved in a project involving a sanitary sewer siphon under the Sunset Channel, directly behind the landmark restaurant. Installed in 1935, the siphon is the sewer pipe which connects Sunset Island to the system on the west side of PCH. “Because of its age and location, the District is replacing the siphon,” said Graham Hoad, President of the Sanitary District.
“The Broadway Sewer Siphon was originally built using 6-inch cast iron pipe. The siphon is about 3-feet north of the Broadway Bridge over the Sunset Channel,” Hoad explained. “The bottom of the siphon is about 9½- feet below the water’s surface. We’re investigating to find the location and size of the opening in the existing steel sheet piling. This phase of the project should be done within days.”
“Once we know the location and dimensions of the openings in the steel sheet piling channel sides, we plan to design a replacement 6-inch sewer siphon which will provide greater earthquake resistance.”
James B. Griffin, who lives on Sunset Island near the projects, said, ‘I’m really happy this is being done and look forward to their completion.”
