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Southwest Florida water officials voted Tuesday to issue a water shortage order limiting outdoor watering to one day per week in Tampa Bay beginning next month. The vote by the Southwest Florida ...
The Southwest Florida Water Management District vote, set for Tuesday, comes with a recommendation from the agency’s staff to declare a water shortage order ... Lawn-watering restrictions could ...
The district hasn’t had a mandatory watering schedule since the drought of 2015. Mandatory KID watering restrictions possible this summer. What you can do now
In 2003, a committee predominantly composed of real estate developers was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to solve Florida's water disparity. Members were selected from the lobby group Council of 100 and in a 2003 report proposed "a system that enables water distribution from water-rich areas to water-poor areas," or the transfer of water through pipelines from the state's northern regions to ...
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 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.
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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.