{"id":46564,"date":"2025-11-14T15:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46564\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:27:13","slug":"18-3-million-approved-for-new-storm-resilient-operations-building-at-southwest-water-reclamation-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/46564\/","title":{"rendered":"$18.3 million approved for new storm-resilient operations building at Southwest Water Reclamation Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Under the agreement, Ajax will build a new operations and maintenance building at the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The current facility has been in operation for more than 50 years and several of its existing buildings no longer meet modern requirements for emergency response or daily operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">City officials described the current structures as outdated and vulnerable. For instance, they are not hurricane-rated and they sit below the level needed for staff to safely shelter in place during a storm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The new building will be a three-story, 14,000-square-foot facility elevated to approximately 22 feet. It will be constructed with masonry walls, precast floors, and steel roof framing capable of withstanding wind speeds of around 170 miles per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the agreement, Ajax will build a new operations and maintenance building at the Southwest Water Reclamation Facility.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-46564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564","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=46564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}