A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent Friday morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. ...more

March 29, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent this morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near the Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. They learned that restoration is a fix for environmental damage perpetrated by human activity, like fish farming, ditching and agriculture. They planted grasses to stabilize the shoreline and held horseshoe crabs and other creatures that live in and around Newman Branch Creek. ...more

March 27, 2009

Lake Roberta is a lime-green shade these days, covered with tiny floating duckweed. To many residents, the vegetation is an unexpected outcome of the lake's recent cleanup. ...more

September 3, 2008

Lake Roberta is a lime green shade these days, covered with tiny floating duckweed. To many residents, the vegetation is an unexpected outcome of the lake's recent cleanup. ...more

September 3, 2008

Tampa and Hillsborough County public works crews are "pumping like crazy" to lower pond levels in north Tampa and avoid the kind of flooding that hit the area after Hurricane Frances in 2004. ...more

August 18, 2008

A few years ago, when Harbour Island Inc. and assorted builders gradually turned over most of the community to its residents to govern, one thing was certain. ...more

June 25, 2008

When Hurricane Frances dumped 8 inches of rain in 2004, much of North Tampa was underwater. But it doesn't take a hurricane to flood the neighborhoods between Fowler Avenue and Busch Boulevard. ...more

September 5, 2007