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Tampa Bay Water sought damages from the embankment's construction and engineering companies. A $30 million settlement offer from the embankment's engineer-of-record, HDR, Inc., was rejected by Tampa Bay Water and the case proceeded to court. In April 2012, a federal jury ruled that the design firm was not liable for the damages.
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 ...
The Tampa Bay Watershed is the 6,410 sq mi (16,600 km 2) Florida area which drains to Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico, including the area draining from Gasparilla Pass and the watershed of Hillsborough Bay. [1] The city of Tampa and the southern portion of the metropolitan Tampa Bay Area are within the watershed.
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.
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]
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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Florida.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).