With all the development talk on the site, I thought I'd bring up one piece of development that has been pretty much written off and ignored (as well as a failure up to this point). Especially with the weather as it's been lately and a dire lack of rain.

The Hillsborough Desalinization plant
http://www.tampabaywater.org/watersupply/tbdesaloverview.aspx

The reason why I alluded to this plant being a failure up until this point is because of this:

The desalination plant is off line while deficiencies in the design and construction of the pretreatment and intake processes, as well as the reverse osmosis and intake processes, are fixed. Tampa Bay Water anticipates the plant will be operation by Fall 2006.

I think this closure has lasted more than 2 years and operation was a couple of weeks total. Someone please correct me on that.

The plant is the first large one of it's kind in the United States. It's a shame they can't get the thing up and running correctly.

With all the development talk on the site, I thought I'd bring up one piece of development that has been pretty much written off and ignored (as well as a failure up to this point). Especially with the weather as it's been lately and a dire lack of rain.

The Hillsborough Desalinization plant
http://www.tampabaywater.org/watersupply/tbdesaloverview.aspx

The reason why I alluded to this plant being a failure up until this point is because of this:



I think this closure has lasted more than 2 years and operation was a couple of weeks total. Someone please correct me on that.

The plant is the first large one of it's kind in the United States. It's a shame they can't get the thing up and running correctly.

that site says it should be up sometime in November

But the fact is that it's been closed for years on end since it "opened" briefly.

I quoted the site and posted that they project the plant to be open this fall. I just am skeptical to believe it right now... Or even if it does open, I have this feeling the plant isn't going to meet capacity goals with thanks to one or more screw ups that continue to plague the plant.

I could be wrong, and for the regions sake, I hope I am wrong.

Don't get me started on this. A large part of my innocent childhood was consumed by my maniacal family trying to thwart the construction/opening of this plant.

ETA - once and for all, is it desalination or desalinization? I've heard both..... ? Desalination reads correctly, but it is quite common to see desalinization used.

^^ Beats me, my spelling sucks in either case. :p :)

^^ Beats me, my spelling sucks in either case. :p :)

Both work.... both redirect to the same page in the wikipedia and my spell-checker accepts both. I guess it doesn't mater? :sleepy: