Wastewater

"Some days you barely smell it, some days it about knocks you down."

This is a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership to take Pasco County's sewage sludge and make it into commercial fertilizer.

A court settlement over repeated sewage spills by St. Petersburg from nearly a decade ago has been resolved. Some environmentalists hope — but are far from sure — that major spills are a thing of the past.

The “generational” project to replace the Western Trunk sewer line will cost an estimated $77 million.

Residents have noticed an occasional smell near the Howard F. Curren Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Tampa officials say a disruption at the plant should be fixed by the end of March.

A public hearing was held Tuesday night on an "exploratory" well at an idled Mosaic processing plant north of Plant City. But it is unknown what exactly would eventually be sent underground.

The city manager gave detailed answers to resident questions at Tuesday’s city commission meeting.

A nine-foot-tall, 500-foot-long AquaFence will soon guard Lift Station 85, a wastewater treatment plant that services St. Petersburg’s downtown waterfront.

The massive surge of water sent sewage into at least six waterways.

They filed the federal lawsuit after around 215 million gallons of wastewater was discharged into Tampa Bay in 2021. It said the discharges caused harmful algae blooms and fish kills.

Repairs have finally been completed on a leak that poured more than 10,000 gallons of wastewater into an area containing sensitive wetlands in St. Petersburg. It took several days to fix the break.

It is not known yet how much of the untreated sewage made its way into Stevenson Creek, which flows into Clearwater Harbor.