what's the whole story behind Piney Point? Bottom Line: I was working on this story last week prior to the good news that a crisis had been averted and turned my attention to other issues based on breaking news out the state legislative session. Governor DeSantis’s decision to put an end to the site, as he ordered Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection to create a closure plan brought this back into the news and it’s a good opportunity to establish how we arrived here. Also, because everything seemingly is politicized these days it’s helpful to cut through some of the incomplete reporting about how the Piney Point reservoir became an environmental catastrophe in the making.