Hillsborough Desalinization Plant

[John F]

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/watersu...loverview.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.