Don’t wait for an emergency to happen before you sign up for CodeRED, a high-volume, high-speed system for mass emergency notifications. Since 2010, IRWD has kept customers informed in times of water-related emergencies with CodeRED.

Emergencies come in all forms, whether they are fires, floods or earthquakes. Any of these could cause disruptions in water service, so it is best to be prepared.

Customers have the option of receiving voice, email or text messages within an hour of a water-related emergency. For example, if there is a water main break that affects certain neighborhoods, residents of those neighborhoods will be informed of the problem and be given an estimated time for the repairs and any other pertinent information.

Signing up for CodeRED is as easy as going to the IRWD website.

Irvine Ranch Water District will host a cleanup site at San Diego Creek for the 15^th consecutive year on Saturday, September 19. Drop by the site on Riparian View, just off Michelson Drive, to do your part in helping the environment.

The site is one of 23 such sites that span the foothills to the coast. IRWD joins forces with Trails 4All, which conceived the idea of Inner-Coastal Watershed Clean-Up Day in conjunction with Coastal Clean-Up Day 19 years ago.

Over the years, more than 28,000 volunteers have participated in cleaning up one million pounds of trash and recyclable materials.

Nearly all of inland Orange County is covered, much of the Coyote Creek Watershed along the Los Angeles and Orange County border, and expansion continues upwards along the greater Santa Ana River Watershed.

While Coastal Clean-Up Day focuses on cleaning trash from the beach, Inner-Coastal Watershed Clean-Up Day concentrates on getting trash out of the tributaries before it hits the beach. Trash dropped on the street ends up in storm drains and eventually finds itself on the coastline.

IRWD’s site will be located off Michelson Drive on Riparian View, adjacent San Diego Creek and the San Joaquin Marsh. Please wear closed-toed flat shoes, hats, sunscreen and insect repellant. The entire family is invited to learn about environmental stewardship and students can receive community service hours for their participation. No reservations are required.

More information on IRWD environmental programs is available on our website.

A Westpark Elementary School student has had her poster chosen from a field of 159 for publication in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s “Water is Life” student art calendar for 2016.

Jana Ibrahim was a first grader at Westpark in Irvine when her poster was selected as one of five finalists from the IRWD area for regional judging by Metropolitan. The 159 posters were submitted by the 23 participating member and retail agencies, of which IRWD is one. The calendar will feature 36 pieces of student art work.

A student recognition event will be held at Metropolitan’s Los Angeles offices later this year. The framed student art work will be on display. After the first of the year, all of the framed art work will be part of a traveling art show to be displayed for a week at a time in the lobbies of water agencies all over Southern California.

We will announce when IRWD will be hosting the art show. For more information on our educational programs, please visit our website.

FINAL UPDATE 8/24 1:00pm:  Road paving is complete and all traffic lanes will be reopened at approximately 4pm today. 

UPDATE 8/20 1:39 pm: Final repairs to asphalt and concrete are expected to be complete by late evening on Saturday, August 22nd.

UPDATE 8/19 4:27 pm: Water from the flooded parking structure was completely pumped out as of 2:15 pm. Tonight, traffic will be diverted around the water line repair area, with the opposite side of the street remaining open. The excavation site has been temporarily back filled with slurry. Permanent restoration of the asphalt in the road will be scheduled as soon as possible.

UPDATE 8/19 11:39 am: The broken water pipe has been repaired and water service has been restored to the affected buildings.

UPDATE 8/19 10:24 am: All buildings in the area now have water service except for the building impacted by the water in the parking garage.

ORIGINAL POST: At approximately 2:00 AM today, a 10-inch water pipe broke in the vicinity of 4100 MacArthur Blvd, near the corner of MacArthur and Von Karman in Newport Beach.

IRWD crews responded immediately to the site and began working to find and isolate the broken section of pipeline, minimizing the loss of water. Water from the break flooded a nearby parking structure and crews are currently in the process of pumping out the flooded areas.

The water has now been shut off to the site and repairs to the pipeline are expected to begin soon. Repairs are expected to be complete at approximately 11:00 AM. Three out of the four adjacent traffic lanes are currently open.