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In 2006, Tampa Bay Water discovered cracking along nearly 40% of the reservoir's interior lining. A third-party engineering firm was hired to investigate the cause and reported that the cracking was the result of water being trapped in the earthen embankment. The resulting repairs were estimated at $121 million. [7]
This is a list of Superfund sites in Florida designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
300 homes are evacuated near Piney Point phosphate mine as a leaking reservoir threatens a 20-foot wall of water. Visual explainer: How crews pumped wastewater from reservoir into Tampa Bay to ...
Lake Jackson near Tallahassee, FL occasionally drains into a sinkhole in the bottom of the lake bed when water levels in the aquifer drop. [31] [32] Dover Sinkhole, located along the Peace River near Bartow, FL, was witnessed draining about 10 Mgal/d (38,000 m 3 /d) of water from the Peace River during June 2006. [33]
TAMPA — More and more, the question in Cigar City is not whether we need more sidewalks, but who is going to pay for them. The city recently proposed a hefty increase in fees for developers who ...
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).
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 ...
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