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Piney Point breach: How did we get here?


Piney Point breach: How did we get here?
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By Sierra McLean | April 6, 2021 at 10:50 PM EDT - Updated April 6 at 10:52 PM
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - ABC7 has been following the situation at Piney Point closely for over a week now. We have to ask: How did we get here?
Well, the plant at Piney Point opened in 1966 as a subsidiary of the Borden Company.
By 1970, fish kills at Bishop Harbor were being blamed on operations at the plant.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, new owners Royster Phosphates and the Mulberry Corporation went belly up. And by 2004, the Environmental Protection Commission had taken over the property, then returned it over to the State Department of Environmental Protection to run. ....

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Florida pond 'contaminated with radioactive wastewater could collapse'


Florida pond contaminated with radioactive wastewater could collapse
Adam Schrader For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press
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A Florida reservoir contaminated with radioactive wastewater could collapse at any time and has prompted evacuations as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Saturday.
A significant leak at a large pond of wastewater was discovered on Friday at the old Piney Point phosphate mine in the Tampa Bay area north of Bradenton.
Waste material on the property is stored in water-covered stacks of phosphogypsum - a fertilizer waste product that is radioactive, WTSP reported. ....

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Florida warns of 'catastrophic flooding' if reservoir collapses


Florida warns of catastrophic flooding if reservoir collapses
Lauren Fruen For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
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Officials in Florida on Sunday warned of a 20 foot wall of wastewater and catastrophic flooding after a significant leak at a large pond threatened to burst a system that stores polluted water. 
Governor Ron DeSantis took part in an aerial tour of the site and later held a press conference after more than 300 homes were evacuated near the large reservoir in the Tampa Bay area north of Bradenton Saturday.
He was joined by Manatee County Administrator Scott Hopes, who warned: So if you are in an evacuation area and you have not heeded that, you need to think twice and follow the orders. ....

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