St. Petersburg: Northeast residents can flush toilets starting at midnight
Households and businesses in northeast St. Petersburg will be able to flush toilets, take showers and do laundry beginning at midnight tonight ahead of schedule. Mayor Ken Welch announced Friday at a 5:30 p.
What Northeast St. Petersburg residents need to know about water usage in homes and businesses
The Northeast Sewer Treatment Facility was taken offline Thursday night to protect it from storm surge damage from Hurricane Helene. Affected residents are not to drain water. That includes taking showers,
St. Petersburg residents: Avoid flushing toilets, taking showers due to sewage treatment plant closure
St. Petersburg officials announced its Northeast Sewer Treatment Plant will be down for at least two days. Here's what to know about its impacts.
Northeast St. Pete residents can’t flush toilets, drain sinks for at least 48 hours
After days of news conferences warning about Hurricane Helene’s expected historic 5- to 8-feet storm surge, and hours after the window to evacuate had passed, Mayor Ken Welch announced at 5:30 p.m. Thursday that the city may have to take the Northeast Water Reclamation Facility offline.
These St. Petersburg residents should avoid flushing toilets, taking showers
The City of St. Petersburg says its Northeast Sewer Treatment Plant will be down for at least two days, impacting thousands of people.
St. Petersburg knew for at least 2 years northeast sewage plant was at risk
ST. PETERSBURG — The city of St. Petersburg has known since at least 2022 that its lowest-lying sewage plant could not handle ...
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St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch urges residents to prepare for Tropical Storm Helene
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St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch worries about delayed evacuations
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Tampa region emerges as epicenter of Florida’s death toll from Helene
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State officials are closing Ken Welch’s political committee. Here’s why.
The state is seeking to shutter St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch’s political committee for failing to appoint required officers to manage the organization. Florida’s Division of Elections put Pelican ...
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Storm surge from a distant Helene creates major problems around the Tampa Bay area
And while the South Florida area was spared from such destruction, many residents in parts of the Tampa Bay area were ...
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St. Petersburg officials urge residents to evacuate during Helene if asked to do so
Projections call for storm surge from Hurricane Helene higher than Tampa Bay has experienced in recent history.
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At least 7 killed in Bay Area during Hurricane Helene
At least seven deaths in the Bay Area have been blamed on the storm: two in Tampa and five in Pinellas County.
Hurricane Helene live updates: Storm now a dangerous Category 4 as it nears Florida
Helene is expected to make landfall on Florida's Big Bend this evening as a major Category 4 hurricane, bringing the risk of ...
Florida storm surge forces emergency sewer shutdown in St. Petersburg; no showers or flushing
St. Petersburg officials to cut power to the sewer treatment facility to protect the plant from unprecedented storm surge, ...