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Projects in Tamarac, Florida

Below are the "shovel-ready" projects for which this city submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not.

The total cost of all the projects submitted by Tamarac is $14,782,000

Description City State Jobs Cost Program Type Vote Ratio
Construction of integrated systems of bike lanes/walkways to provide alternate transportaiton opportunities. Narrow roads to not allow for "sharing" of roadways for alternate transportaiton. Tamarac FL 50 $4,000,000 Streets/Roads -8
Economic cevelopment redevelopment intiative- Mainstreet Town Center Project. Revitalization of corridor required in form of construction of potable water, sanitary sewer and stormwater drainage systems($1.6 milllion) Tamarac FL 45 $4,500,000 Water -4
Water recovery; installation of backwash recovery equipment to recover water from package filters for reuse. Would conserve by reusing up to 300,0000 gallons of water perday currently being discharged to surface waters. Tamarac FL 25 $2,200,000 Water 13
Infrastructure infiltration and inflow reduction City would reline estimated 10 miles of gravity sewer system pipes serving to propect the environment and water source by reducing the amount of wastewater discharged by 2.6 billion gallons Tamarac FL 20 $2,000,000 Water 9
replacement/upgrade of piping and pumps at City's wastewater pump stations located throughout city. Project would ensure reliability of operaton and prevent failure resulting in contamination Tamarac FL 12 $800,000 Water 12
Municipal solar panels - retrofitting of city facilties with solar panels resulting in savings of 250,000 Kwatts per year Tamarac FL 20 $800,000 Energy 3
Conversion to LED street lights. Traditional technology would be replaced with Energy efficient LED lighting, resulting in savings of 265,000 Kwatts per year Tamarac FL 8 $300,000 Energy 10
Data center/desktop virtualization initiative to increase efficiency and reduce entrgy usage by virtualizing 24 servers and 200 desktop computers with two energy smart servers. Resulting savings of 117,531 Kwats annually Tamarac FL 8 $182,000 Energy 3