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Council hears multi-hundred‑million-dollar update on water and wastewater ‘PIPES’ program
Summary
City staff updated council on the 20‑year PIPES capital program for water and wastewater infrastructure, reporting progress on hundreds of projects, cost increases since pre‑COVID estimates and highlighted near-term projects including filter-building improvements and new treatment technologies.
City of Tampa infrastructure staff told the council the PIPES capital program remains active but has encountered cost increases since the program’s original estimates, driven by post‑pandemic construction and material costs.
Brad Baer, deputy administrator of infrastructure, and Eric Weiss, director of the wastewater department, summarized the program’s scope. Weiss said the wastewater master plan originally identified roughly $561 million for the Howard Curran advanced wastewater treatment plant, and the pipes‑in‑the‑ground component estimated about $648 million over 20 years. He said the utility manages 1,500 miles of wastewater pipes across the city and that about 60% of that pipe was installed before 1970, with 20% installed before 1950.
Weiss reported the program has completed 119 projects to date with total commitments exceeding…
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