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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
4 hours ago Share Gov. Ron DeSantis and Senate President Wilton Simpson say state funds will be used to treat water, close Piney Point permanently.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday he is directing Florida s Department of Environmental Protection to create a plan to permanently close Piney Point.
Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson said he is working with DeSantis and the DEP to create an appropriations request for $100 million to help facilitate the site s closure. The request would then be considered by the Florida Legislature, as would additional payments if needed.
Additionally, DeSantis said he reallocated $15.4 million of the DEP budget to be used for innovative technologies to pre-treat water at the site for nutrients, in the event further discharges are needed. He also said water quality monitoring will continue to measure the ecological impact of wastewater that was discharged into Piney Creek and Tampa Bay.
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