Some homeowners in Huntington Beach may lose access to parts of their property because the county needs to dig out an old sewer line, a move that has frustrated many.
“They’re saying they want to put a wall from here all the way across and we don’t get access to this back,” Andrea Rizzo said. “We don’t get to have it back.”
Rizzo had recently remodeled her Huntington Beach home to accommodate her disabled son AJ. It included the addition of an above-ground pool in the backyard on her property but it’s within a sewer easement that officials say has existed in the neighborhood since 1959.
Last month, more than two dozen homeowners got this letter from Orange County Sanitation District notifying them that all structures and improvements on their property located within the sewer easement must be removed. Officials said they need to access the massive and vital underground sewage pipe.
“A pipe needs to be serviced,” Rizzo said. “We get that. It’s just that it’s such a bullying move in the wording.”