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Florida Gov. DeSantis says he is trying to prevent 'real catastrophic flood situation' at Tampa-area reservoir


Florida Gov. DeSantis says he is trying to prevent ‘real catastrophic flood situation’ at Tampa-area reservoir
Response teams in Manatee County, Florida, are trying to prevent a “real catastrophic flood situation” in the Piney Point reservoir area, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday after taking an aerial tour of the area.
The governor assured the public that the water being discharged to nearby Port Manatee, on the Gulf Coast, is not radioactive.
The Manatee County Public Safety Department declared a state of emergency Saturday and ordered a complete evacuation of the Piney Point reservoir site, about 20 miles south of Tampa, and surrounding areas because of a leak that could cause a collapse of phosphogypsum stacks, radioactive waste that is created during fertilizer production and phosphate rock mining. ....

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Live updates on Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know Sunday


Manatee plant potential collapse: What you need to know
Gov. DeSantis, state, local officials addressed the situation at Piney Point.
 
 
Updated Apr. 4
At a Sunday afternoon press conference, Manatee County officials reported “no news was good news” from the Piney Point reservoir leak.
Vanessa Baugh, chairman of the Manatee County Commission, said that “we have thankfully avoided an uncontrolled breach.”
Baugh assured county residents that their drinking water was safe, saying, “There is no threat to our primary source of drinking water Lake Manatee.”
Dr. Scott Hopes, acting Manatee County administrator, said that there is now below 300 million gallons of water left to be pumped from the leaking reservoir. Last week that number was around 480 million gallons. Hopes said with the additional pumps being provided by the state, by tomorrow morning the amount of water being pumped out will be nearly doubled. ....

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