did you know...

• The reservoir holds up to 15.5 billion gallons, or 33 times the volume of Raymond James Stadium.
• When full, the reservoir can provide 25 percent of the region’s needs for more than six months.
• The reservoir is two miles long, one mile wide and the circumference at the top of the berm is five miles.
• As part of the mitigation efforts for this project, over 1.5 million plants and trees were planted on the site.
•  An 8 mile, 7-foot diameter pipeline connects the reservoir to the water supply network.
• The reservoir’s banks are coated with a layer of soil cement to prevent erosion from waves.
• It took 183 days to initially fill the reservoir.
• During construction, more than 150 pieces of heavy equipment were used and more than 150 people employed.
• 13 million cubic yards of earth were moved in total for this project.  That is equivalent to one dump truck every minute for two years straight.
• Drilling teams spent 10 months on the site to study the geology and sub-surface conditions and 12,000 man hours were spent collecting data on the site.
• If all the soil borings taken at the site were placed end-to-end, the line would stretch 3½ miles.