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May 14, 2008
Tampa's Controversial Plan to Allow Non-Profit Firm to Solve Water Problems
Each day, the city of Tampa, FL dumps 55 million gallons of treated sewer water into Tampa Bay (pictured), not making the EPA very happy.
Besides reducing pollutants in Tampa Bay, the water could be used for non-drinking purposes, like watering lawns, and ease the growing demand for potable water.
Under continued pressure from the EPA, and with ten years of searching for a solution, a non-profit firm, Water Partners Inc., has proposed to put this reclaimed water to use, and sell it to potential customers such as Tampa Bay Electric, Mosaic Fertilizer, Hillsborough and Polk counties, Lakeland and Bartow.
While this appears on the surface to be a sound solution for the sewer discharge problem, the state government is uneasy to put the proposed project in the hands of a private company.
Meanwhile, Tampa has not made any decision on how much of its water it wants to sell or to whom. Bills on water reuse were introduced this year in the Legislature. While most of those amounted to nothing, one led to an agreement by the state Department of Environmental Protection to make recommendations about reclaimed water before next year's legislative session, as reported by the St. Petersburg Times, and published by the Orlando Sentinel.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at May 14, 2008 03:06 PM
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