CORONA DEL MAR TODAY

Construction Update: Carnation To Go to One Lane, Newport Coast Work To Begin

Ongoing roadwork along Carnation Avenue is about to close all but one lane of that street, and a project on Newport Coast Drive is ready to begin, which will close sections of the right lane and bike lane from March 15 until early December.

The Carnation Avenue construction is a continuation a project that includes repaving streets and fixing deteriorated concrete, curbs and gutters, as well as removing and reconstructing sidewalks. Begonia and Acacia avenues are included in the project.

Contractors have completed most of the work on curbs, sidewalks, gutters and ramps along Carnation Avenue, but they are now ready to repave, which will close all but one lane. That lane will remain open to detour cars from Bayside Drive, which also has three lanes closed because of a county sewer project. (Read our story here.)

Traffic from East Coast Highway to Bayside Drive will be detoured along Second Avenue to Heliotrope Avenue.

City officials said that street sweeping parking enforcement is suspended until the project is completed, which should be next month. More information and a map can be found here.

Newport Beach officials delayed another project — planting palm trees in Corona del Mar medians — because that project also would close lanes on East Coast Highway; that project will take place in late April or May when the other projects in the village are complete.

The Newport Coast Drive lane closures will be to allow the Irvine Ranch Water District to being a corrosion projection project between Coast Highway and the 73. Crews will be working on a 10-year-old pipeline that is suffering from numerous water leaks because of unexpectedly early corrosion, officials said. The work will be done in segments, with the right lanes and bike lanes generally being closed, they said.