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

Military officials and local dignitaries dedicated the new Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert Joint Intelligence Operations Center at MacDill Air Force Base this week. ...more

August 29, 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

The days of handholding are over. Pasco County will no longer give violators of its watering restrictions second chances. ...more

March 25, 2009

With local lakes and rivers at critically low levels, the region's water provider has virtually shut down the surface water supply to the Tampa Bay region. ...more

March 14, 2009

After two terms on the City Commission Dave Eggers was elected mayor, Tuesday in a closely contested race that saw him garnering 51 percent of the vote. ...more

March 14, 2009

Let's call it fishing in a huge, expensive and slightly flawed barrel. Wholesale utility Tampa Bay Water has paid a contractor $88,000 to relocate fish from its C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir to ponds in the area. ...more

March 7, 2009

Water regulators are considering a new round of restrictions to combat three years of drought conditions. ...more

February 17, 2009