St. Petersburg to spend $628K on AquaFence flood barrier for downtown lift station
City council members also approved a $2 million contract increase for a Tarpon Springs company to flood-proof vulnerable ...
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St. Pete leaders to consider AquaFence to protect infrastructure from future flooding
During the last hurricane season, the Tampa Bay area saw firsthand how the AquaFence around Tampa General Hospital works. Now ...
City of St. Pete could purchase an AquaFence
FOX 13’s Kailey Tracy explains why leaders in St. Petersburg are weighing a proposal to purchase an AquaFence in hopes of ...
St. Pete buys an AquaFence as leaders work to shore up sewage facilities
It was an easy sell to St. Pete City Council members who unanimously approved spending more than $600,000 to buy an AquaFence ...
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St. Pete City Council to consider purchasing AquaFence to protect water resources facility
The FloodWall would provide 518 linear feet of protection from floodwaters to protect the city’s Lift Station #85 near Albert ...
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St. Petersburg Considering Protective Flood Barriers
The barrier can withstand up to 15 feet of storm surge, according to Tracy. “St. Pete’s AquaFence FloodWall would be 518 feet ...
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Commentary: The importance of hospitals to Florida’s future
On the Gulf Coast, the staff of Tampa General Hospital constructed an entire “aquafence” to prevent flooding during the storms so that health-care providers could continue to care for their ...
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Potential St. Petersburg sewage plant solutions include a massive wall
Tampa General Hospital recently made headlines for implementing an AquaFence, a temporary impermeable barrier, around its island facility during recent storms. However, it can only withstand a 15- ...
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Federal government awards $173K to city of St. Pete to keep the lights on at fleet management
Funding will be used to install a 600kW generator to provide electrical service to the city’s Fleet Management facility ...
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or face any other punishment for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled on Friday but said Trump ...