Due to a high volume of Water Engineering service requests and staff vacancies, our response time to your service request may be delayed. Please submit your request via email to waterengineering@santacruzca.gov or leave a message at 831-420-5210, and a response will be provided in the order that your correspondence was received. We also ask that you allow up to 72 hours to schedule any inspections. Thank you in advance for your patience, and our team will look forward to fulfilling your service request at our earliest convenience.

The Water Engineering Section provides engineering, planning, and project design for construction of necessary water facilities and installation of water saving technologies. Keeps current with new technologies and water quality issues, remaining sensitive to mitigation of environmental impacts. Reviews all requests for water services. Maintains records of facilities, installations and maps. Engineering also oversees the Backflow Prevention Program. 

Click here for a list of services that Water Engineering provides to the public.

Engineering oversees the Water Department's Capital Improvement Program.

Water Engineering                                 Public Counter Hours
212 Locust Street, Suite C                    1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060                            Monday - Friday
831-420-5210                                          
831-420-5201 (fax)                                                                                                                                                                                           

waterengineering@santacruzca.gov

Isidro Rivera, Deputy Water Director/Engineering Manager

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