Hillsborough County surrounds Florida’s Tampa Bay and is 84 percent unincorporated. “Everything around here eventually drains to the Bay,” notes David Glicksberg, an environmental manager for the county. That includes three major rivers — the Hillsborough, the Alafia and the Little Manatee — numerous smaller streams and creeks, and a few hundred lakes.Protecting local waters would be a big job for any agency, and far too big for the 22 staff members in the county’s stormwater management section. But Hillsborough has mobilized and coordinates thousands of volunteers who monitor lakes, streams and ponds, perform cleanups and restoration projects, and “adopt”
