The Tampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant is the drought-proof component of Tampa Bay Water’s diverse, interconnected system, providing up to 20 million gallons of water per day (mgd) to the region. Since it came online in 2007, the plant has provided more than 26 billion gallons of clean, safe drinking water to the Tampa Bay region. Seawater coming into the plant goes through a rigorous pretreatment process, then freshwater is separated from the seawater using reverse osmosis to create high-quality drinking water.
This project constructs two reverse osmosis racks, which includes the purchase and installation of new pressure vessels and membranes, for a total of seven reverse osmosis racks. This project will also complete repairs or replacements to existing equipment, including a 50-ton air conditioning unit, motors and pumps, variable frequency drives, and materials and communication panels for racks 1-5.
Adding these two reverse osmosis racks improves the desalination plant’s reliability and system redundancy and brings the plant back up to its original design capacity of 28 million gallons of water per day (mgd) maximum.
Total cost for design and construction is $13.9 million.
Construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2027.
This project has no public impact as all work is contained within Tampa Bay Water property.
