CAPE CORAL, Fla. — The cities of Fort Myers and Cape Coral will celebrate the completion of a massive water project that's been in the works for more than five years.
The Caloosahatchee Connect project is now complete.
Cape Coral and Fort Myers partnered together to create a pipeline across the Caloosahatchee River to transfer water from Fort Myers to the Cape.
“This is a project that would not only help the city of Fort Myers with their waste water discharge but it helps the city of cape with the irrigation water for the future," Cape Coral Mayor said.
It will also help keep fresh water in the canals elevated during dry season, and help the fire department with water pressure to put out fires.
The pipe will transmit about 12 million gallons of water day of reclaim water from Fort Myers that was usually discharged in the river.
"The problems we face such as with water and environment, they don’t know boundaries," said Fort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson. "They effect all of us and we need to be collaborative in our approach in addressing these problems.”
Not only will this project provide a minimum of 1.26 billion gallons of additional reclaimed water each year, but it will also remove approximately 50 tons of harmful waste.
