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As the nearby marine ecosystem displays the effects of elevated levels of nutrients from the leak, the governor said the state will spend millions of dollars to treat the remaining wastewater at the facility.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the Piney Point facility Tuesday and announced he has directed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to develop a full plan to permanently close and rehabilitate the Piney Point, a project that could cost upwards of $200 million. We want this to be the last chapter of the Piney Point story, DeSantis said. This will ensure the state is moving forward with a thoughtful, scientific plan toward closure to avoid another chapter in this long history.
To fund those efforts, DeSantis also announced that $15.4 million of existing DEP appropriations will be used in the short-term to pay for innovative technologies to pretreat wastewater at the site for nutrients to minimize any adverse environmental impacts of any future discharges, if they are necessary. Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson said that the legislature is also pushing forward plans to appropriate $100 million this year to the DEP s effo