TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Nearly 3,000 homes, businesses and other structures in unincorporated Leon County are more than 1,000 feet from a fire hydrant even though they have water service, according to a new county report, because the water systems serving them cannot provide enough water to support one.
Leon County says it has already installed hydrants everywhere in the unincorporated county where existing water infrastructure can support them.
Reaching the properties left behind will require something much more expensive: replacing undersized water lines and, in some areas, adding pumps and water storage capable of supplying hydrants…