3. Project Background
Enhanced Surface Water
System
• Three sources – Alafia River, Tampa Bypass Canal &
Hillsborough River (197 mgd pumping capacity)
• One treatment plant (66 mgd capacity)
• One storage element (15 billion gallons)
5. Project Background
Enhanced Surface Water System
To Regional System
Hillsborough River
Tampa Bypass Canal
Pump Station
Treatment Plant
Pump Station
Alafia River
Reservoir
6. Project Background - Components
Tampa Bypass Canal Pump Station
• Hillsborough River High Water
– Minimum 65 mgd over Tampa Dam
– Withdrawals increased from 10% to 30% of total flow
• Tampa Bypass Canal
– Minimum 7 mgd over
downstream structure
– Withdrawals of 80%
of total flow
• Total Design Capacity –
– 145 mgd
7. Project Background - Components
Alafia River Pump
Station
Alafia River
– Minimum 80 mgd Flow in
River
– Withdrawals of 10% of total
flow, up to 52 mgd
8. Project Background - Components
• Capacity 66 mgd
• Water Sources
– Alafia River
– Hillsborough River
– Tampa Bypass
Canal
• Constructed through
a DBO process
Tampa Bay Regional Water
Treatment Plant
10. Tampa Bay Regional Reservoir Project
• November 1998 Start of Design
Activities
• May 2002 Groundbreaking
Ceremony
• June 2002 Started
Construction
• March 2005 Construction
Completed
14. The Reservoir: Major Permits
• Hillsborough County Department of Health
Permits – Local
• EPCHC Wetland Authorization – Local
• FDEP Environmental Resource Permit - State
• SWFWMD Water Use Permit - State
• Environmental Impact Statement R.O.D. Federal
• USACOE 404 Dredge and Fill Permit - Federal
26. Collection/Management of Soil Test
Data Using GIS/GPS
• ESRI ArcPad 6.0
• Data Collected with Laptops and WAAS
Enabled GPS Units
• Data Downloaded Daily
• Merged into Database to Evaluate Data
and Plot Using ArcMap 8.0
• Report Generator
• Spatial Evaluation Using 3-D Analysis
27. ArcPad 6.0
• Types of Hardware
– Laptop Computer
– GPS Unit
– Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
Just to orient you, Tampa Bay Water is…
a special district of the State of Florida formed to supply wholesale water to the cities of St. Petersburg, Tampa and New Port Richey as well as Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties.
Our members, in turn, provide water to nearly 2 million people in the Tampa Bay region
Largest wholesale water supplier in Florida and the Southeast
Describe the New projects under construciton
Surface Water
Regional Water Treatment Plants 66 surface and Groundwater
Off Stream Reservoir
Limited New Ground water
Seawater desalination
Describe projects for 2008
Desal
Cone Ranch
Work with Industrial users