master water plan projects
The following are currently under study by Tampa Bay Water to potentially meet the future drinking water needs of the region.
Gulf Coast Seawater
Desalination Plant
Tampa Bay Water previously considered the feasibility of developing a second
seawater desalination plant along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Similar to
our existing seawater desalination plant, the Gulf Coast plant would be adjacent
to the Anclote Power Plant for a cost-effective and environmentally sound
arrangement. This could include a 9-25 million gallons per day, reverse osmosis
desalination plant and would share the intake infrastructure with the Anclote
Power Plant.
Northern
Tampa Bay
Wellfieds
This project would involve increasing the
allowable annual average withdrawal rate of the existing combined permit for
the 11-Consolidated Regional Wellfields. A regional increase in groundwater
production could be found to comply with water resource recovery goals set
forth by the Southwest Florida Water Management District due to supply
diversification, increased regional rotational capacity, wetland and
drainage mitigation projects, and ongoing monitoring, modeling, and
forecasting activities as described in the annual Optimized Regional
Operations Plan. If found feasible, this project idea would apply to the
next permit renewal cycle for the wellfields in 2020 when an additional
decade of environmental data will be available for documenting environmental
recovery in the areas around the wellfields.
Small Footprint
Reverse Osmosis
in Pinellas County
This concept consists of monitoring reverse osmosis
desalination projects being developed by the cities of
Tarpon Springs and Oldsmar. In the event that either
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