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Tampa Bay Water currently owns a 25.0 MGD seawater desalination water treatment plant(WTP) located adjacent to the TECO Power Plant in Apollo Beach, Florida referred to as theTampa Bay Seawater Desalination Plant (TBSDP). This facility has experienced difficultiesmeeting the necessary water quality goals following filtration in order to provide high qualitypretreated feed water to the seawater reverse osmosis membrane system. This overall project is a multi-phased project consisting of several major phases, includingpiloting, final design, permitting, construction, start-up and long-term operation. The first phaseof the overall project focused on the pilot study portion of the pretreatment remediation. Thisphase was completed in 2004 as part of the pre-proposal efforts for the retainage of areplacement contractor. With the selection of the American Water-Pridesa Team, the next phaseof this project focused on permitting and final design of the remediation of the plant.This paper presents the different steps, requirements, preliminary studies and laboratoryanalyses necessary to obtain the various permits for the reverse osmosis facility modificationswithin a tight schedule. A pilot study was performed concurrently with the permit process inorder to support the permit application packages. The seven permits to be obtained were:Drinking Water Construction permit from Florida Department of EnvironmentalProtection (FDEP);Building Permit from Hillsborough County;National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit from FDEP for theconcentrate discharge back into the Tampa Bay;Sanitary waste permit from Hillsborough County;Solid waste approval from Hillsborough County;Air pollution permit from Hillsborough County-Environmental Protection Commission; and,Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) from FDEP (not discussed in this paper). Includes figure.

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Edition: Vol. - No. Published: 03/01/2007 Number of Pages: 6File Size: 1 file , 300 KB