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Photo left: Monica Dorken is ready with a bucket as Susan Harris, Hill-Gustat Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade teacher, holds a puffer fish she captured during their wading tour as Liz Abell, Sun ’n Lake Elementary fourth-grade teacher, looks on. Photo right: Monica Dorken, Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center educator/program coordinator, checks to see what Dorothea Strickland, K–12 science resource teacher, caught in her net.
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ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 26, 2013 – The draft Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) Regional Water Supply Plan is available for public review and comment at CFWIwater.com. Comments can be provided online or by mail and email. Details are available on the web page. The comment period will close on Jan. 10, 2014.A public workshop will be held to discuss the draft plan. The workshop will include a presentation and an informal, open-house format. CFWI experts will be available to…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) awarded $104,941.81 in grants to 48 educators within the District as part of the Splash! school grant program. The program provides up to $3,000 per school to enhance student knowledge of freshwater resources in grades K-12.
Splash! grants encourage hands-on student learning through STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities as well as engagement of the greater school community through…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) awarded $104,941.81 in grants to 48 educators within the District as part of the Splash! school grant program. The program provides up to $3,000 per school to enhance student knowledge of freshwater resources in grades K-12.
Splash! grants encourage hands-on student learning through STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities as well as engagement of the greater school community through…
The Central Florida Water Initiative (CFWI) regional water supply plan team will present a free, interactive webinar about the development of a regional water supply plan for the central Florida area at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 29.The webinar will include an overview of the CFWI, highlights of the regional water supply planning process, a question and answer session and information on how to become involved in the process. The webinar is sponsored by the Polk County Board of County…
Today the Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) announced the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will provide $638,550 to a new, 880-foot deep monitoring well in the District’s Most Impacted Area (MIA) of the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA) in Hillsborough County. District scientists will use data collected from the new well to better assess aquifer system dynamics, enhance groundwater modeling and determine potential water…
District renews Tampa Bay Water permit for the South Central Hillsborough County Regional Wellfield »
The Southwest Florida Water Management District Governing Board last week renewed Tampa Bay Water’s water use permit (WUP) for the South Central Hillsborough County Regional Wellfield.The service area includes approximately 122,000 acres in southern Hillsborough County located approximately seven miles south of Plant City and includes the Lithia and Keysville areas.The water use permit is for an annual average of 24,100,000 gallons of water per day (gpd.) There were…
Atop Hillsborough County’s newest “mountain,” visitors got a glimpse of the largest coastal restoration project ever performed for Tampa Bay.
Community leaders helped the District dedicate the Rock Ponds Ecosystem Restoration Project during a ceremony Wednesday. Located just north of the Manatee County line in Ruskin, the project will create coastal habitats and…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) awarded $104,941.81 in grants to 48 educators within the District as part of the Splash! school grant program. The program provides up to $3,000 per school to enhance student knowledge of freshwater resources in grades K-12.
Splash! grants encourage hands-on student learning through STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities as well as engagement of the greater school community through…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District is in the process of developing the 2025 Regional Water Supply Plan (RWSP). The plan lists projected water demands as well as possible water sources for each region of the District through the year 2045. The draft RWSP is posted on the District webpage. Comments may be submitted virtually thought the webpage.…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District is in the process of developing the 2025 Regional Water Supply Plan (RWSP). The plan lists projected water demands as well as possible water sources for each region of the District through the year 2045. The draft RWSP is posted on the District webpage. Comments may be submitted virtually thought the webpage. At the workshop…
The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) awarded $107,969 in grants to 58 educators within the District as part of the Splash! school grant program. The program provides up to $3,000 per school to enhance student knowledge of freshwater resources in grades K-12.
Splash! grants encourage hands-on student learning through STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities as well as engagement of the greater school community through…
From left to right: Shannon Staub, Sarasota County commissioner; Judy Whitehead, Governing Board chair; Heidi McCree, Governing Board member; Maritza Rovira-Forino, Governing Board member; Dora Thomas, Manasota Basin Board member; and David Moore, District executive director, listen to a presentation about surface water treatment by Kevin Morris, PR/MRWSA facilities division director (second from left).
District representatives recently participated in a tour of…