GreenBlue Urban<\/a> and will install the green infrastructure on the southside of 50th Avenue N. from Fourth Street to Seventh Street. Tankersley said the city must use the treatment system after the state tightened stormwater regulations last year.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have to remove more nutrients before it gets to the Bay,\u201d Tankersley said. \u201cThe reason why that\u2019s important is because it\u2019s the nutrients that cause the algae growth in the Bay that kills off the seagrasses. So, we want to make sure that the Bay is healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The project will also include larger stormwater drainpipes and roadway elevation work. The city purchased a flooded home at Seventh Street N. and 53rd Terrace on a lot backing up to the canal and had it removed for the project. Public Works plans to use the property, which will remain undeveloped, to build an outfall to the canal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn that area, we get a significant amount of roadway flooding because the existing stormwater system is not large enough to move the water out,\u201d said Tankersley. \u201cThis project will help move that water and get it out of the streets and into the canal to help the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Public Works also plans to install a 42-inch stormwater pipe at 50th Avenue and Fourth Street N. to help reduce flooding on the busy road. Tankersley said older pipes in the area are not large enough to handle the amount of rain produced by current storms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we look at the pipes that were put in back in the 1950s, they\u2019re usually in the 15-to-18-inch diameter,\u201d Tankersley said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re looking at doubling the size, tripling the size.\u201d<\/p>\n
Resident Nikki Ursini, who lives in an elevated townhome development nearby, said she\u2019s glad to find out the project will help her neighbors in the low-lying area.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s great,\u201d Ursini said. \u201cI think that it will be a nice relief, peace of mind, for this street.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city received a $2.7 million grant from SWIFTMUD for the project. Public Works said it wants to incorporate green infrastructure into as many future projects as possible and will be looking to add nature-based solutions into city policy.<\/p>\n
The project is expected to begin in early 2027 and will take about one year to complete. Public Works plans to conduct neighborhood outreach about the major construction impacts, which will go curb-to-curb, in November and December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg City Council has approved a nearly $7 million stormwater drainage project…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2968,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-407774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-josh-rojas","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}