ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - St. Petersburg just added another tool to protect infrastructure against hurricanes , and it’s a familiar one for the Tampa Bay Area.

Big picture view:

Crews recently installed an AquaFence around the city’s main lift station, Lift Station 85, near Albert Whitted Airport. Nearly a quarter of the city’s wastewater flows into the pump station and six pumps screen it for solids, and pump it to the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility.

An AquaFence has protected Tampa General Hospital from floodwaters for a few years.

Why you should care:

"The majority of the hospitals are served by this facility, as is our emergency operations center, many of the storm shelters that people would go to during a storm," Claude Tankersley, the public works administrator for the

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