Newport quarantine areas updated

A spokesman for the California Food and Agriculture Department said a

Newport Beach neighborhood was mistakenly omitted when a quarantine

zone was announced Tuesday in order to combat a weevil infestation.

The announcement should have included the area known locally as

the Port Streets, department spokesman Steve Lyle said. The correct

borders of the quarantine zone are University Avenue at the north to

the Corona del Mar (73) Freeway; along the freeway to Bonita Canyon

Road and runs along that street until San Miguel Drive. The border

follows San Miguel Drive until its southern extent at San Joaquin

Hills Road.

The boundary follows San Joaquin Hills Road to Jamboree Road. The

western extent of the quarantine runs along Jamboree Road until that

street hits Eastbluff Drive. Eastbluff Drive marks the western end of

the zone until it curves back toward Jamboree Road and becomes

University Avenue.

The state is trying to eradicate a local population of the

diaprepes root weevil, a Caribbean insect that eats more than 270

plant varieties, especially citrus species.

The state has identified 168 properties as being at high risk of

infestation, Lyle said. He said the property owners have been

notified and informed that state officials must be contacted to

remove plant wastes from their yards.

Property owners whose garbage is collected by Newport Beach trash

collectors can dispose of green waste with their regular trash, Lyle

said. People whose garbage is collected by any other agency must take

plant waste to special landfills that dispose of the plant waste

through a deep burial method.