1 day ago Share No doubt there will be plenty of political blaming in the wake of the Piney Point leak that Manatee County commissioners were negligent. For the truth, just watch their Jan. 26 meeting.
As the drama subsides around Manatee County’s environmental emergency at the old Piney Point phosphate mine, no doubt we can expect the political fallout to equal, if not surpass, the environmental fallout.
Out-of-power forces always love a crisis and a disaster to blame on those in power.
Thankfully, the leaking of contaminated water from a deteriorating containment wall did not create the historic human and environmental catastrophe it could have.
Article by Amanda Jasi
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are concerned about the impacts on marine life after days of leakage of contaminated wastewater into a local creek leading to Tampa Bay, Florida’s largest open-water estuary. Researchers are currently investigating the effects.
On 26 March, owner HRK Holdings reported signs of a leak from a wastewater reservoir at its Piney Point facility, a former phosphate plant. The reservoir contained about 480m US gallons (1,817 L) of wastewater when the leak was identified. It holds mixed seawater, primarily saltwater from dredging of a local port, along with legacy process water and stormwater runoff and rainfall.
Authorities stated that news reports of a second leak from the reservoir were “unsubstantiated”.
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OriginClear Offers Free Advice to Piney Point Reservoir Owners on Emergency Repairs to Remediate Toxic Waste Leaks
April 9, 2021 GMT
OriginClear Tech Piney Point Proposal Cover (Graphic: Business Wire)
CLEARWATER, Fla. (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 9, 2021
OriginClear Tech, a division of OriginClear Inc. (OTC Pink: OCLN ), a leading provider of water treatment solutions, offered to advise at no expense the owners of Tampa Bay’s old Piney Point phosphate plant on the best method to remediate the toxic waste leak and emergency discharge of an estimated 38 million gallons per day into the Bay.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced on Friday that all discharges of untreated water from Piney Point into a Port Manatee channel has ceased. The DEP said they won t pump anymore water into the Bay until equipment has been installed that will remove the nutrients first. (Josh Rojas/Spectrum Bay News 9)
Tampa Bay Watch Monitoring Impacts From Piney Point Discharge PUBLISHED 5:19 PM ET Apr. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:19 PM EDT Apr. 09, 2021
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The non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and restoration of Tampa Bay launched a drone from a boat on Friday to document any environmental impacts from the 215 million gallons of toxic water that has been discharged over the past week from the old Piney Point plant in Palmetto.