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DWH Project Funding

$2,085,262

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Project Description

Pinellas County, through the Florida Gulf Consortium, is requesting $2,085,262 in Oil Spill Impact Component funding for Wastewater Collection System Improvements – E&D phase of the project. The grant funding request is only for the final engineering and design stages for new wastewater collection systems in 15 mobile home parks (MHPs) in the unincorporated Lake Seminole and LeaIman areas of the Pinellas County. From the I&I evaluation study performed using Pinellas County Utilities internal resources, design and construction solutions will be determined to cost-effectively reduce the rain-derived I&I and sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs), and thus lessen impacts to local waterbodies. The purpose of this program is to identify the sources of, and reduce, domestic wastewater I&I in the unincorporated Lake Seminole and Lealman areas of the Pinellas County. This project addresses the following RESTORE Council Comprehensive Goals: Goal 1: Restore and Conserve Habitat, Goal 2: Restore Water Quality and Quantity, and Goal 3: Replenish and Protect Living Coastal and Marine Resources. The primary goal of this project is to restore water quality and quantity; with the secondary goals of restore and conserve habitat, and replenish and protect living coastal and marine resources. Additionally, this project addresses RESTORE Act Eligible Activity 1: Restoration and protection of the natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands of the Gulf Coast region. This component of the project is expected to be roughly 2 years, and is expected to place from February 2021 until December 2022.