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Scientists are ramping up their efforts to track the nutrient-rich wastewater, contaminated by the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack, that’s dumping into Florida’s Tampa Bay, as concern remains ...
Piney Point: The environmental disaster may be fueling Red Tide. Red Tide resources • The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has a website that tracks where Red Tide is detected .
A pond holding wastewater at Piney Point, just south of the Hillsborough County line, sprung a leak in March when its plastic liner tore. The state Department of Environmental Protection allowed ...
I say, ‘well my beach hasn’t closed.'” Patino owns rental properties in Gulfport in Pinellas County, miles away from Piney Point. Yet, he feels the national media would make you believe the ...
Florida DEP officials say it's not thought to be connected to Piney Point discharges, but the wastewater nutrients could make it worse. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.
At Piney Point, it is piled into enormous mounds called phosphogypsum stacks. At the top of those stacks are large ponds holding water that became contaminated from phosphate refinement.
After pumping more than 30 million gallons of wastewater each day into Tampa Bay, the amount of water in the Piney Point retention pond has dropped to under 300 million gallons, down from ...
While the ongoing issue at Piney Point has made national headlines, it is not the first leak the facility has dealt with. In 2011, a leak sent more than 170 million gallons of process water into ...
Florida Piney Point wastewater reservoir does not have a second breach, officials say Crews still racing Tuesday to drain millions of gallons of water. Associated Press.