News and Updates

Thank You For Letting Us Serve You! South Coast Water District understands what a difficult time this has been. The Board of Directors and the staff here want you to know that we are in this together! Even though our facilities and administrative offices remain closed to the public, we are still here working for you More information

Our Water is Safe California's comprehensive and safe drinking water standards require a multi-step treatment process that includes filtration and disinfection. This process removes and kills viruses, including coronaviruses such as COVID-19, as well as bacteria and other pathogens. In addition to health-based water quality standards, treatment facilities must comply with stringent performance measures to ensure treatment processes are continuously operating at peak performance. The treatment process must destroy at least 99.99% of viruses. The limited number that might pass through the removal process are quickly inactivated in the disinfection process, typically in less than 10 minutes. All treatment facilities for surface water sources in California are required to maintain disinfection facilities sufficient to destroy giardia cysts, which are much more resilient than viruses.  View our annual water quality report

Transparency is one of our District's cornerstones. The pandemic has made us adjust the way our board meetings are held. The District has always live-streamed our meetings, but now we are adding in phone conferencing as well. Committee and Board meetings will be held as conference call meetings. Participants can follow the meeting via live stream , and District Directors, staff, and the public can participate via conference call. Conference call numbers will be posted on the agenda along with a participant number. You may submit any oral comments for public comments or any agenda item to the Clerk of the Board Jody Brennan at  jbrennan@scwd.org  before the start time of the meeting and request that the comments be read into the meeting record. Please know the District welcomes public input at our Board and Committee meetings, and we welcome your participation by listening to the meeting via conference call from your home.

Operations is Out in the Field Every Day During This Pandemic They are working hard to make sure we all have the water and sewer services we need. There is no shelter in place for them. If you are out or see them in your neighborhood, please give them a wave and virtual high five! (Tom Wilson working on the sanitary sewers this morning.)

Operations is out in the field every day during this pandemic

You can now get text messages straight to your cell phone from OC Health regarding the Coronavirus. Opt-in by texting "OCCOVID19" to 888777

These are very challenging times and we are here to help you! Currently, the District waives credit card transaction fees. During this time period, we will also waive fees for leases and Engineering Permitting payments If you are going through financial hardships as a result of this COVID-19 pandemic, please contact us at (949) 342-1140 for financial relief. SCWD has a no shutoff policy during these tough times.