On June 9, a stormwater pond near Port Tampa Bay in Florida began to empty itself, independent of human interaction.
The water level in the pond near Tampa's port district dropped around 10 in., emptying almost 70,000 cu ft of water into Tampa Bay. It wasn’t quite enough to catch the 2.8 in. of rain that fell in one hour on June 10, but Jeff Littlejohn, president of National Stormwater Trust (NST) considers it a success for the group’s new Smart Pond technology.