It was getting on in the afternoon when Jim Norman finally cut to the chase and summed up the situation with some accuracy. ...more

October 23, 2009

Money from a fine levied against the region's water supplier for excessive pumping at wellfields in the winter and spring will pay for a study of how much water Florida Friendly Landscaping saves. ...more

October 22, 2009

It's a sacrifice, but I am willing to save our community $500,000 and assist Tampa Bay Water in picking the best company to repair our reservoir. ("Reservoir consultant could get $1 million," Metro, Oct. 17). My fee would be cut rate. I'd only charge $400,000. The financial sacrifice would be nothing compared to the reward of service to the public. ...more

October 21, 2009

Monday morning, the board of Tampa Bay Water voted to spend $1 million for a consultant to help the regional wholesale utility select the firm that will get the job of fixing the many cracks that have developed in its 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. Fixing this crack problem at the reservoir, which is less than five years old, is going to cost almost as much as the $146 million it cost to build it. When you're throwing around that kind of dough, what's another million tacked onto the bottom line? ...more

October 21, 2009

About eight months after it bought troubled Aloha Utilities, the Florida Governmental Utility Authority is negotiating the purchase of a half-dozen small water companies in western Pasco County. ...more

October 21, 2009

Starting today, customers who get their water from Pinellas County Utilities will pay more. ...more

October 1, 2009

On Monday, the governing board of Tampa Bay used one hand to hold its collective nose and plunged the other into the pockets of the people in Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties who consume the water the regional wholesale utility produces. Then the board voted to spend an estimated $125 million over the next five years to repair the many cracks that have developed in the utility's 15-billion-gallon C.W. Bill Young Reservoir. ...more

June 23, 2009

$147 million Construction cost of the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir $125 million ...more

June 16, 2009

$147 million Construction cost for the C.W. Bill Young Reservoir $500,000 Annual cost to repair cracks in the reservoir since 2007 ...more

June 5, 2009

If I had a big house and a large lawn, Tampa's new water rules would allow me to use hundreds of extra gallons of water each week to keep my grass green, plus allow unlimited showers and baths for my family. ...more

May 30, 2009