Tampa Bay Water
Tampa Bay Water 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 elected representative from each member city oversees the policy decisions of the agency. The member governments that make up the board of directors are: The cities of New Port Richey, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Tampa, and Hillsborough County, Pasco County, and Pinellas County. These member governments provide water to over 2.5 million citizens.
Tampa Bay Water, formerly the West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority, was created in 1998 to deliver drinking water in an environmentally sound, cost-effective and reliable manner. To achieve these goals, the Agency created a diversified water supply system to reduce dependence on a sole source—groundwater. The regional utility built the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value)., a seawater desalination plant with a maximum output of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). per day,[2] a surface water treatment plant with a maximum output of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). per day, and interconnected more than Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of large-diameter pipeline. The system spans over Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). to deliver drinking water at an average rate of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). per day.
The region's water sources are:
- Surface water from the Alafia River,[3] Hillsborough River and Tampa Bypass Canal
- Reverse osmosis desalinated seawater from Tampa Bay[4]
- Groundwater from regional well fields
Board of directors
- Chairman: Susan Latvala, Pinellas County Commissioner[5]
- Vice Chairman: Ted Schrader, Pasco County Commissioner[6]
- Kathryn Starkey, Pasco County Commissioner[6]
- Karl Nurse, St. Petersburg Councilman[7]
- Robert Consalvo, Mayor, New Port Richey[8]
- Charlie Miranda, Tampa Councilman[9]
- Sandra Murman, Hillsborough County Commissioner[10]
- John Morroni, Pinellas County Commissioner[5]
- Ken Hagan, Hillsborough County Commissioner[10]
References
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- ↑ Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), Upper East Coast Water Supply Plan, 2004. pg. 102
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