Gov. Ron DeSantis held a press conference in which provided updates regarding Piney Point and the FDA and CDC’s recommendation to pause use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. DeSantis announced that he has directed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to formulate plans for the permanent closure of Piney Point. In answer to […]
DeSantis steering more money to Piney Point, wants to close site
âWe want this to be the last chapter,â governor says.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the situation at Piney Point at a press conference in Manatee County on April 4. [ LUIS SANTANA | Luis Santana ]
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is steering another $15.4 million toward cleaning up polluted water at the old Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County, where a leak in recent weeks has prompted the release of more than 200 million gallons of wastewater
into Tampa Bay.
âWe want this to be the last chapter of the Piney Point story,â the governor said at a news conference in Manatee on Tuesday. He said the money will be freed up by redirecting existing appropriations to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. He did not specify what that money was meant for originally. It is supposed to help pay for treating wastewater on the site before any more is pumped to Tampa
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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.