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.

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 ...

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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 ...

A Florida environmental disaster looms as the collapse of a wall at a Piney Point phosphate plant is "imminent." Above, a snipe wades through the waters at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands on March 28 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Piney Point: Averting disaster on the Gulf Coast 08:08. All it took was 10 days to devastate the waters of Tampa Bay for months. The nearly "catastrophic failure" of Piney Point, a former ...

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.

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 ...