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03/01/2013

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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 Page 69 ���Conditions are declining throughout the dis- THE OUTLOOK trict,��� she noted. ���But the Peace River [AuGranville Kinsman Jr. is the water managethority] has almost a year���s reserves.��� ment district���s hydrology manager; he keeps Warren Hogg, the permitting manager for Tam- track of rainfall, aquifer levels and other indipa Bay Water, reported its reservoir has been cators of the region���s water supply. drained ��� on purpose. The 15-billion-gallon ���We received about four-tenths of an inch of C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir came rain last month [January],��� he said. ���Normal into service in 2005, but it has a cracked ero- rainfall is 2.4 [inches of rain].��� Overall, he said sion-control layer. ���Abnormal cracking in the rainfall in the district is about half of the norreservoir���s interior lining has limited the res- mal level. ervoir���s use,��� a press release says. It will take two years for repairs to be completed and 18 Surface water bodies ��� creeks, streams and rivers ��� are down as well, starved for rain. more months to fill it up again. ���The Peace River is very, very low, at the low In the meantime, Tampa Bay Water will depend end of the severe range,��� he said. But the newon a 20-million-gallon-per-day desalination ly completed reservoir for the Peace River plant, plus other workarounds. Hogg supported Authority now contains 5 billion gallons, ���or the Phase III restrictions for his service area. about 289 days of storage.��� The four-county area of Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and DeSoto counties received sufficient rainfall in past months to avoid water restrictions. Photo by Eloquence via Flickr and Wikipedia Commons

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