Escondido Trunk Sewer Main Emergency Repair Notice of Completion Request

Overview

The May 13, 2026 Escondido City Council agenda packet included an Item 10 request to adopt Resolution No. 2026-51 authorizing the Director of Utilities to file a Notice of Completion for the Emergency Repair of the Escondido Trunk Sewer Main.

A reviewed excerpt from the official City meeting video supports that consent calendar items 1 through 10 were moved, seconded, and approved at the May 13, 2026 meeting. Because Item 10 was the trunk sewer Notice of Completion request, this page treats the video excerpt as final-action evidence for the consent-calendar approval.

This page does not state a vote count, that a Notice of Completion was filed or recorded, that the project has no later changes, or that current service, construction, access, or safety conditions are represented here.

The February 18 and April 1, 2026 City Council minutes add earlier continuation-action context. The February 18 minutes record Item 9 as a request to adopt Resolution No. 2026-19 declaring a need to continue the emergency repair of the Escondido Trunk Sewer Main, and record the consent calendar as approved 5-0. The April 1 agenda packet lists Item 8 as a request to adopt Resolution No. 2026-48 declaring a need to continue the same emergency repair, with a staff recommendation of approval. The April 1 minutes record the same Item 8 request and record the consent calendar motion as approved 5-0.

Agenda Request

• Body: Escondido City Council
• Meeting date: 2026-05-13
• Agenda item: Item 10
• Proposed resolution: Resolution No. 2026-51
• Department: Utilities
• Staff recommendation in packet: approval

The Item 10 staff report says the emergency repair's total cost was $11,955,436.81 and that it was funded from Trunk Sewer Replacement Project Wastewater Capital Improvement Project No. 801913.

The proposed Resolution No. 2026-51 text in the same packet says construction of the Emergency Trunk Sewer Replacement project was completed in March 2026 in the amount of $11,955,423.18. This page keeps both amount statements as packet text and does not reconcile them.

Final Action Evidence

The official City meeting video page for May 13, 2026 lists the consent calendar marker at 00:16:20 and the next agenda marker at 00:16:52 in the reviewed transcript source notes. A registered snapshot of the official video page identifies the source as a City of Escondido Meeting Video Archive page for the May 13 meeting and lists agenda markers including Consent Calendar and Board and Commission Interviews. A reviewed transcript excerpt from that portion of the video supports that consent calendar items 1 through 10 were moved, seconded, and approved.

The reviewed excerpt does not include an announced vote count. A May 25, 2026 check of the City Municode Agendas/Minutes index and May 13 meeting-detail page did not show approved minutes for the May 13 meeting. Approved minutes, final resolutions, or later official records should still be checked if they are posted.

A May 26, 2026 Agendas/Minutes index snapshot records that the May 13 City Council row had an agenda-packet link, an empty Minutes table cell, a video link, and a View Details link. Use that as dated source-status context only; it does not prove approved minutes are unavailable elsewhere.

Local Context

The Item 10 staff report says City Council adopted Resolution No. 2024-86 on June 26, 2024, ratifying Proclamation No. 2024-02 and affirming that competitive bidding procedures could be forgone for necessary emergency repair of the failing trunk sewer main.

The report describes two emergency-repair sections: one along Ash Street paralleling Escondido Creek from the Firestone parking lot to the Walmart Neighborhood Market parking lot, and another from Beech Street to Grape Day Park, including North Hickory Street and East Pennsylvania Street.

This page does not publish a map, utility alignment, exact underground infrastructure location, current service condition, or current access guidance.

Work Dates And Scope

The Item 10 staff report says Section 1 emergency repair work started on August 7, 2024 and was completed on January 21, 2025. It says CCL started Section 2 work on July 25, 2024 and completed construction work on March 27, 2026.

The staff report says repair work for both sections included bypassing, removing, replacing and upsizing 6,277 feet of pipeline, installing 22 manholes, abandoning 2,100 feet of failing pipeline with slurry filling, and pavement restoration.

City Project Page Check

The official City Emergency Trunk Sewer Replacement Project 2024 page retrieved on May 26, 2026 states that City staff discovered multiple trunk sewer pipeline failures in June 2024, that the City Manager proclaimed a local emergency on June 20, 2024, and that City Council ratified it on June 26, 2024.

The same project page describes the emergency repairs as split into two sections. It says Section 1 was completed July 7, 2025, and says Section 2 was in progress, with nearly 3,720 feet of 24-inch sewer main replaced, 12 new manholes installed, and 13 laterals reconnected. It also lists estimated completion as early 2026.

Because the project page was retrieved after its own early-2026 estimate and after the May 13 agenda packet's proposed-resolution text stated that construction was completed in March 2026, this page treats the project page as a dated current-source check and possible stale-status signal. It does not resolve current construction status, recorded Notice of Completion status, current service status, closure status, detour guidance, public safety conditions, or exact utility location.

City News Status Note

A March 11, 2026 City News & Updates page about Escondido Creek Trail features says, in an "Adjacent Projects to the ECT" section, that the Emergency Trunk Sewer Replacement project was completed in late February. Use that as dated City news-page context only. It does not replace approved minutes, final resolution text, recorded Notice of Completion evidence, utility records, or later official updates, and it should be compared with the May 13 agenda packet's March 2026 construction-completion recital before making broader status claims.

Indexed Pages

• April 1, 2026 City Council Agenda Packet
• April 1, 2026 City Council Minutes
• City Emergency Trunk Sewer Replacement Project Page
• Escondido Agendas/Minutes Index
• Escondido Creek Trail Feature Work 2026
• February 18, 2026 City Council Minutes
• May 13, 2026 City Council Agenda Packet
• May 13, 2026 City Council Consent Calendar Reviewed Transcript
• New Creek Trail Features Are Emerging