Romine believes the Piney Point discharge has some connection to the bloom. “Typically it would be late August or September during the rainy season when runoff is at a peak,” he said.

PINEY POINT — It is called the “Lighthouse of Presidents” but not because Piney Point ... white tower rises just 26 feet above a dry Potomac River beach of prickly pines in St. Mary ...

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 ...

Hillsborough’s Environmental Protection Commission is told to be prepared to seek legal remedies. Workers clean up dead fish kill in an Apollo Beach canal. Red Tide-triggered fish kills were ...

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.

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 ...

This week’s top-selling house in Marion is a stately colonial that sold for $1,350,000. Located in the highly desirable Piney Point beach community at 26 Holly Road this house is positioned ...

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.

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 ...