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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 new channel was needed to improve water quality in parts of Old Tampa Bay north of the causeway. The channel will be spanned by a 230-foot (70 m) bridge without supporting piers in the water, a design that will avoid trash and pollutants being caught on piers in the water. The $12 million project completed construction in July 2019.
Tampa spokesperson Adam Smith said the city has invested $2.9 billion on upgrading water and wastewater pipes since 2019 and began $360 million in stormwater improvements in 2017.
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 ...
Floodwaters inundated parts of the Tampa Bay region on Wednesday morning as Hurricane Idalia’s outer bands swept through the area, and officials warned water levels would continue to rise in ...
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.