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Closing Piney Point is personal for Jeff Barath. He has managed the site for 20 years, has watched the plant change ownership multiple times and has navigated several crises. Not by his choosing, Barath became the spokesperson for HRK Holdings, the company that owned the plant during a 2021 ecological disaster in which roughly 215 million gallons of tainted water from the fertilizer site were ...
“We finally have something to show the public. This is almost like the model home in a subdivision.”
“We finally have something to show the public. This is almost like the model home in a subdivision.”
“For the community, this is big. This is huge,” the site manager said.
The digging of a deep well at the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County has been completed. Now, workers are injecting 1 million gallons of polluted water deep underground, every day. WUSF takes a tour of the site, to see what's being done to make sure huge spills don't happen again.