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County officials detail $1.6 billion '1 Water' program; pipeline construction for segment B to begin September 2025
Summary
Hillsborough County Water Resources officials told commissioners during the June 11 budget workshop that the '1 Water' capital program—valued at about $1.6 billion—will expand drinking-water and wastewater capacity, with pipeline construction for segment B starting September 2025 and the new water plant targeted to be online by 2029.
George Cassidy, Assistant County Administrator for Public Utilities, and Lisa Ray, Director of Water Resources, briefed the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners on June 11 about the county's Water Resources capital program and the county's largest-ever single water project, the "1 Water" campus.
"We never lost drinking water supply to our customers," George Cassidy said when summarizing the utility's response to recent storms and the resilience of the system during outages.
Lisa Ray described the system footprint and the project's schedule and funding priorities. The county serves nearly 800,000 people in the unincorporated area, operates across roughly 300 square miles and—she said—has added 52 miles of new water pipe, 64 miles of new wastewater pipe, 25 new lift stations and about 805 new manholes in the last 18 months.
Ray said the county intends to advertise for a construction manager at‑risk (CMAR) in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2025 and expects the new water plant to be operational by 2029. She said county staff received…
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