C. W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir

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The C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir is a 15 billion gallon reservoir which collects water from the Alafia and Hillsborough Rivers in Florida's Tampa Bay watershed area. It is named for a U.S. Congressman.

Tampa Bay Water, the regional water authority for Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties, spent $146 million to build the 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) reservoir, which was completed in 2005. With a capacity of 15 billion gallons of water, enough to provide about one quarter of its service area's drinking water for six months, the facility eases demand on well water from the Floridan Aquifer.

By 2006, only one year into its operation, cracks began to appear, and in 2009, engineers concluded the reservoir design was flawed. Repair work is expected to cost nearly as much as the original construction, at $125 million.