Tampa Bay Water's Cracked Reservoir Rebuilt, Repaired and Ready for Refilling

摘要

Two years after a federal jury denied Tampa Bay Water (TBW) damages for cracks at its then-six-year-old, Lithia, Fla., reservoir, the regional water supplier is eyeing better days as a $129-million renovation nears completion. While Kiewit Infrastructure Group is targeting a November completion, the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection (FDEP) may allow TBW to begin refilling the 15.5-billion-gallon C.W. "Bill" Young Regional Reservoir sometime in August. "The agency hopes to fill the facility half of the way while the contractor finishes work on the top of the reservoir," utility spokeswoman Michelle Biddle Rapp told ENR via email.