TAMPA, Fla. - Tampa Bay Water, the regional wholesaler supplying drinking water to Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties, as well as the cities of Tampa , St. Petersburg and New Port Richey, is launching a massive infrastructure project in southern Hillsborough County.

The agency is set to begin work on a new 26-mile pipeline, designed to keep up with rapid population growth in the region over the next 20 years.

Once complete, the pipeline will transport up to 65 million gallons of drinking water daily from Tampa Bay Water’s Brandon treatment plant south to Hillsborough County’s Lithia plant and a future facility in Balm that the County will then distribute to customers.

Timeline:

Crews begin tunneling under the CSX railway, State Road 60 and the Alafia River in November of th

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