A plan to replace a water pipeline along MacDill Avenue has some business owners worried. ...more

March 16, 2009

Tampa Bay Water is poised to provide for future needs as more people move to the area and demands continue to grow, the regional authority's general manager told Pasco County officials. Gerald Seeber, who addressed the board at a meeting this week in New Port Richey, said Tampa Bay Water has reduced groundwater pumping significantly since 2002, in part because of increased collections of surface water from rivers and better production at a desalination plant in Apollo Beach. ...more

July 24, 2008

For those who enjoy a classic Florida fish fry, it's time to think small. About the only species still abundant enough to allow for heavy harvest is freshwater panfish, but the good news is the state allows you to load the cooler with these little guys. The limit is 50 per day, in any combination of bluegills, shellcrackers, warmouth and sunfish. ...more

July 16, 2008

Recent local newspaper articles jubilantly announced preliminary plans for ethanol to be produced by a plant just south of Lake Placid. Articles indicated the ethanol would be produced from sorghum cane that would be grown in southern Highlands County. They directed attention to the jobs that would be created by this program; however, no mention was made of the great amount of water needed to produce at least two crops of this sorghum per year and the four to five gallons of water required to produce each gallon of ethanol. ...more

May 30, 2008

YEAR OF BACON: Few people know this, but the pig we know and love today came to North America through Tampa Bay. Yes, we have Hernando DeSoto to thank for dragging his porkers across the Atlantic so we could enjoy the crispy goodness of Porky with our breakfasts, BLTs and spinach salads. ...more

January 15, 2008