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Tampa Bay Water approves acquisition and permit transfers to boost South Hillsborough supplies
Summary
The board approved purchases and permit applications to acquire unneeded permitted capacity from private owners and Hillsborough County and to transfer quantities into the agency’s Balm farm and South Central Hillsborough well‑field permits, increasing available regional supply without new infrastructure.
Tampa Bay Water staff presented and the board approved a package of agreements and permit applications intended to increase available permitted water for South Hillsborough County without building new wellfield infrastructure.
Warren Hogg, presenting for staff, said Land Reserve and Farmland Reserve offered five properties in the Southern Water Use Caution Area with combined donor permit quantities that could transfer between 3,100,000 and 5,109,000 gallons per day. Hogg said staff used a unit acquisition price of $3.66 per gallon (CPI‑adjusted from a prior $2.00 per gallon basis) and that the final quantity and cost would be set during…
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