reclaimed wastewater

Tampa City Council members decided Thursday to go ahead with a plan to design a system that could pipe wastewater that is now dumped into Tampa Bay into the Hillsborough River instead.

The plan would dump highly treated wastewater downstream from the city's drinking water intake pipes on the Hillsborough River.

The city of Tampa has withdrawn its request for $1.6 million to pay for a study of injecting reclaimed wastewater into the underground aquifer - so it…