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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.
A number of county enclaves pepper the City of Largo. A Largo street floods after Tropical Storm Debby in 2012. In 2010, Largo's total area was 18.6 square miles (48.1 km 2), of which 17.6 square miles (45.6 km 2) was land and 0.97 square miles (2.5 km 2), or 5.22%, was water. [12] As of 2004, there were 651 acres (2.6 km 2) of park lands. The ...
The water industry usually places such restrictions on their customers during droughts or when the reservoirs supplying the water are becoming empty. Previously, contravening a temporary water restriction is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom under the Water Industry Act 1991 (though the first prosecution for "wasteful use of water" was ...
The Metropolitan Water District has lifted mandatory water restrictions for nearly 7 million people, but is still urging conservation efforts.
The MWD imports water from the State Water Project and the Colorado River, serving 26 public water agencies across six counties that supply 19 million people, about half the state’s population.
Under the new rules, the city of Sacramento would have to cut its overall water use by 9% by 2035 and 14% by 2040, far less than an initial proposal that would have required it to cut back water ...
The lake is located in the city of Seminole, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Tampa. Lake Seminole is the second largest lake in Pinellas County (after Lake Tarpon), with a surface area of 700 acres (2.8 km 2). [2] Once a tidal estuary, Lake Seminole was created in the 1940s by closing the upper portion of Long Bayou. [3]
He also built a 178-foot-deep well and a 75-foot-high 60,000-gallon water tower, the city's first municipal water system. In late 1911, the Louis Johnson Building was ready for occupancy. The ground floor was occupied by the Largo Hardware Company, owned by Walter Geiselman, and by Louis Johnson's Drug Store and Ice Cream Parlor.