Steve Newborn
Assistant News Director at WUSF-FM (Tampa, FL)
WUSF Public Media reporter, itinerant traveler, treehugger
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1 week ago |
wusf.org | Steve Newborn
If you saw flooding in Tampa during last year's hurricanes, the city is working to improve its stormwater drainage systems so they don't back up again. That includes installing generators so pump stations don't fail when power goes out, causing floods in low-lying areas. Tampa is overhauling its stormwater drainage systems. That includes switching over to generator power before major storms, so pumps won't fail when the electricity goes off.
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1 week ago |
wusf.org | Steve Newborn
Hillsborough County is holding the first of eight public meetings Tuesday night to hear how residents handled flooding during last year's hurricanes. They're looking at how overwhelmed stormwater systems can be improved so flooding won't be so bad during the next storm season. The meetings are being held to make sure the flooding —particularly from inundated stormwater systems — doesn't get as bad next hurricane season.
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1 week ago |
wusf.org | Steve Newborn
After four years of fundraising by a private group, Pinellas County has signed a deal with the county school board to preserve 14 acres of natural land south of Tarpon Springs. This means the West Klosterman Preserve will remain a haven for wildlife in a densely-populated portion of Pinellas County. A group dedicated to preserving it and keeping it out of developers' hands raised $1.5 million — with several anonymous donors chipping in. The county matched that amount.
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2 weeks ago |
wusf.org | Steve Newborn
Traffic has been backing up for several years on the Suncoast Parkway as it narrows to two lanes in each direction north of Van Dyke Road in northwest Hillsborough County. So state transportation planners want to widen toll highway to six lanes from Van Dyke to State Road 52 in Pasco County. They said there were 1,045 crashes reported in that stretch from 2018 to 2022. Planners say six lanes are needed now from south of Van Dyke to north of State Road 54, and eight lanes will be needed by 2040.
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2 weeks ago |
wusf.org | Steve Newborn
From atop a pontoon boat, you can see that Three Sisters Springs is a postcard picture of idyllic Florida. Swimmers float on foam noodles above manatees munching on seagrass in the clear water. The three crevasses where the underground aquifer flows into Crystal River are shaded a deep blue. But just a few feet away, the waters start to sport a tinge of green. As in algae green. “You notice the water is kind of dusty and brown,” said Capt. Mark Denzer, our pilot on a recent spring day.
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RT @MCGPublicSafety: At 11 a.m. today @MCGPublicSafety officials ordered a complete evacuation of the Piney Point reservoir site. Evacuatio…
An evacuation order was given late Friday near the leaking Piney Point phosphate processing pond in Manatee County. The alert went out after another break was spotted in the walls of the giant gypsum stack. https://t.co/52FtK7xsq0
House speaker Chris Sprowls of Pinellas County unveils bills that would expand grants to local governments to address ways to combat flooding and sea level rise. @wusf https://t.co/1OxS3ojvHJ