Upgrades to Tampa Plumbing are Coming
The race to eliminate the scourge of lead contamination of drinking water and the overflows of sewage and sludge in Tampa and cities across the country will get a serious boost under the new proposed infrastructure plan.
The infrastructure bill (in it's current form) has 45 billion dollars for grants to help water utilities replace lead water lines. This level of funding, experts claim, would pay for the replacement of all lead water lines nationwide. Another 56 billion dollars is proposed for water and sewer projects, and 10 billion dollars is propose...
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The Impact of Plumbing and Why it Matters
The Impact of Plumbing on Health and the Environment
Modern-day marvels like cellphones and driverless cars are incredible, however, it’s an invention from 1700 BC that’s made the biggest impact on our modern-day living.
We’ve come a long way from that first flush toilet in the Roman Empire province of Crete, to the Roman aqueducts that carried 1.2 billion liters of water every day, to our current day low flow toilets and energy efficient Energy Star-rated plumbing appliances.
We may take for granted our ability to have flushing toilets and hot showers inside our home, however t...
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Notice Your Tampa Tap Water Tasting Different? You Should.
This spring, the Tampa Water Department temporarily changed the water disinfection process for city customers.
From mid March of this year to after the first week of April, the department switched from using chloramine to disinfect the water to chlorine. Then, after April 6th back again to chloramine.
For the residence of the Tampa region this temporary change is a standard water system maintenance measure to optimize water quality and offers a sustainable alternative to losing millions of gallons of drinking water to system flushing.
One thing is for certain, custom...
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Tampa Bay’s Water Quality Continues to Worsen
A recent report shows the quality of water for a portion of Tampa Bay has continued to worsen for the sixth straight year.
Old Tampa Bay, the northern body of water that sits between Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, has continued to see an uptick in harmful nutrients that have contributed to yearly algae blooms, according to the Tampa Estuary Program's recent report.
The program's assistant director, Maya Burke, says the source of the problem can be traced back to the various bridges and causeways that sprawl across the bay. The Gandy, Bayside, and Howard Frank...
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WHOLE HOUSE WATER FILTRATION SYSTEMS: TOP 10 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Last month the City of Tampa and much of Hillsborough County communities was under a boil water notice because a contractor hit a water main break. Water was gushing everywhere and many businesses throughout the area were forced to close down. Even worse, residents throughout the region were unable to drink or cook with the water from their tap. Unfortunately, this is not all that uncommon.
When the professionals at Cass Plumbing install a whole house water filtration systems, they are installed on a home’s main water supply. These are basically used to process all water which enters the ho...
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