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County Debuts New Water Plant

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: April 1, 2009

SOUTH SHORE - Hillsborough County celebrated the dedication of the new Central Hillsborough Water Treatment Facility March 23 - with a toast of water from the plant.

Fifty people attended the ceremony, including county commissioners Kevin Beckner and Al Higginbotham and County Administrator Pat Bean. They took tours of the plant to learn more about the state-of-the-art facility.

The new plant provides an average of 10 million gallons of drinking water a day to homes and businesses in the South-Central service area, which includes Riverview, Apollo Beach and the rest of South Shore, as well as Brandon.

The facility, at 9460 East Columbus Drive, is the county's fourth major water plant and located near several other major county facilities in the Falkenburg Road area of Brandon. The plant treats and sends customers water from Tampa Bay Water's regional supply system.

The $31 million complex includes an administration building, a maintenance building that houses an emergency generator and electrical equipment, and a pair of 5-million-gallon water storage tanks.

Until the new plant was built, customers in its service area were served only by the Lithia Water Treatment Plant, which had to keep pace as new subdivisions and shopping centers sprouted in south Hillsborough County.

Water from the new plant flows into Hillsborough County Water Resource Services' distribution system through a new four-mile transmission pipeline that was completed last year.

For information, call (813) 272-5977 or visit www.hillsborough county.org.

John Ceballos

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