Wastewater

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.

More than 1,000 residents and businesses on Treasure Island were without reclaimed water for nearly a week, according to a Pinellas County official.

Republican Senator Corey Simon has a bill to help solve North Florida’s wastewater problem.

State and federal regulators are lobbing penalties a year after a whistleblower raised concerns.

The massive wastewater spill on the Hillsborough River was caused by the power being shut off to the sewage lift station of an apartment complex.

Opponents say the wastewater can't be fully treated for pharmaceuticals and alternative uses should be explored.

Sewage surveillance is proving so useful in mapping COVID trends that many public health officials say it should become standard practice in tracking infectious diseases. Whether that happens will depend on the nation’s ability to make it viable in communities rich and poor.