Tampa clears $68m disaster-recovery funding for wastewater pumpstations
City of Tampa Water & Wastewater Department, Florida · Meeting date: October 15, 2026 · Published: October 16, 2026
Tampa City Council has approved a $68.04 million agreement with Hillsborough County to fund wastewater pumpstation rehabilitation and improvements through the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery programme. The approval was part of the council’s October 15 consent agenda.
Key points
- The wastewater pumpstation rehabilitation and improvements project is funded at $68.04 million on a cost-reimbursement basis.
- The agreement includes both a subrecipient agreement and a subrogation and assignment agreement between Tampa and Hillsborough County.
- Council approved the item within its consent package for development and economic opportunity items 56-65.
- The council also approved $300,000 of Florida Division of Emergency Management grant funding for components of Tampa’s Watershed Master Plan.
Full report
Tampa City Council has authorised a $68.04 million Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding agreement for a wastewater pumpstation rehabilitation and improvements project, substantially enlarging the city’s identified disaster-recovery investment in its wastewater infrastructure.
The resolution approved on October 15 authorises a subrecipient agreement and a subrogation and assignment agreement between the City of Tampa and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Funding is to be provided on a cost-reimbursement basis.
The agenda did not specify the number or location of pumpstations covered, nor did it set out a delivery timetable. However, at $68.04 million, the wastewater item was the largest water-related funding action before the council.
Council approved the measure as part of consent-agenda items 56-65, which were moved together and passed without recorded opposition in the meeting transcript. The same package also included a CDBG-DR project list for council consideration and approval, alongside disaster-recovery agreements for fire-station improvements and a police-district facility resiliency project.
The wastewater award came amid a broader set of stormwater and utility actions. Council also approved acceptance of a $300,000 Florida Division of Emergency Management grant to support components of Tampa’s Watershed Master Plan, with a corresponding appropriation in the Stormwater Grants Fund.
Other infrastructure approvals included a $1.65 million stormwater pond dredging and restoration contract with Bayside Dredging LLC; a 36-month, estimated $650,000 standardisation agreement with Xylem Water Solutions U.S.A. for Flygt submersible pumps and appurtenances for the Stormwater Engineering Division; and a $1.565 million contract with C & T Contracting Services for replacement of the Forest Hills Park pump station.
For the Water & Wastewater Department, the council additionally renewed an estimated $2.137 million liquid-chlorine award with Allied Universal Corp. for wastewater use, and approved $2 million in additional sulfuric-acid expenditure with Interacid North America, taking the cumulative total for that water-department supply award to $5.03 million.
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Source: City Council Regular - October 15, 2026, City of Tampa Water & Wastewater Department