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The C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir is a 15.5 billion US gallons (59,000,000 m 3) [1] reservoir which collects water from the Alafia and Hillsborough Rivers in central Florida. It is named for C.W. Bill Young, the U.S. Congressman from Florida's 10th congressional district. [2] Tampa Bay Water, the regional water authority for Hillsborough ...
Tampa Bay Water (TBW) is a regional wholesale drinking water utility that serves customers in the Tampa Bay, Florida region. [1] The agency is a special district of the state created by inter-local agreement among six member governments. A nine-member board of directors composed of two elected commissioners from each member county and one ...
Tampa Bay formed approximately 6,000 years ago as a brackish drowned river valley type [4] estuary with a wide mouth connecting it to the Gulf of Mexico.Prior to that time, it was a large fresh water lake, possibly fed by the Floridan Aquifer through natural springs. [5]
That’s the central question driving a new, two-year study that will document the health of Tampa Bay’s ... What’s polluting Tampa Bay’s water? A new study maps its ‘nutrient fingerprint’
The Alafia River is 25 miles (40 km) long, with a watershed of 335 square miles (870 km 2) [4] in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States, flowing into Tampa Bay.The watershed contains ten named lakes and ponds, and 29 named rivers, streams and canals.
The last time Tampa Bay was hit by a major hurricane was 1921, when just a few hundred people lived in sparsely developed backwater towns -- and the community was still devastated.
The Tampa Bay water war is a conflict between Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County, New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, and Tampa that has been going on since the 1970s over water supply. The Southwest Florida Water Management District is another key player.
The Tampa Bypass Canal works together with the Lower Hillsborough Flood Detention Area, which is land owned by the District. This land provides an area for the storage and detention of overflow water from the Hillsborough River and the Tampa Bypass Canal. Because it is used for water overflow storage, there are no homes or businesses built here.