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Here are the key developments at the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant, including a spill that prompted officials to pump more than 200 million gallons of the reservoir’s polluted water into Tampa Bay.
The loss of seagrass has been blamed on a variety of factors, including heavy rains that wash nutrients into the bay.
BARTOW — Hurricane Ian and its monstrous force left Mosaic Phosphate Co.’s mining operations largely intact as the storm roared through Florida.
Before Hurricane Ian struck, scientists were monitoring water from the mouth of Tampa Bay near Manatee River, all the way up to Cockroach Bay, on the southeastern shore of Hillsborough County for possible effects of a Piney Point stormwater release.
The release has raised the concern of environmental advocates who have called for full closure of the site for years.