Toxic Wastewater Retention Pond Leak and Release from Abandoned Piney Point Phosphate Fertilizer Plant - Manatee County, Florida

Update:

Congress Urged to Investigate Huge Wastewater Release, Threat of Catastrophic Collapse of Florida's Piney Point Phosphogypsum Stack (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity; April 12, 2021)

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/congress-urged-to-investigate-huge-wastewater-release-threat-of-catastrophic-collapse-of-floridas-piney-point-phosphogypsum-stack-2021-04-12/

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Dumping of polluted wastewater from Piney Point continues.  DEP working to treat water (Zac ANDERSON and Jesse MENDOZA, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; April 7, 2021)

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/disaster/2021/04/07/suncoast-water-keeper-tampa-bay-water-keeper-say-florida-dep-failed-on-piney-point/7117166002/

USF Scientists testing the waters to study the effects of Piney Point Reservoir release (Leda ALVIM, The USF Oracle; April 7, 2021)

http://www.usforacle.com/2021/04/07/usf-scientists-testing-the-waters-to-study-effects-of-piney-point-reservoir-release/

Crews Drain Florida Wastewater Pond As Leak Threatens to Unleash 'Catastrophic Flood' (Rachel TREISMAN, NPR; April 5, 2021)

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/984483381/crews-drain-florida-wastewater-pond-as-leak-threatens-to-unleash-catastrophic-fl

Piney Point Phosphogypsum Stack Drone Video (WFLA News Channel 8; April 2, 2021)

Also...

Water leaking from mound of radioactive waste near Port Manatee (Kate SPINNER and Dale WHITE, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; June 1, 2011)

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20110601/News/605199762/SH?template=ampart