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Piney Point: Bending the rules at Piney Point, a $140-million mess.
The earthen embankment containing the Piney Point waste has suffered from structural problems requiring patching with gravel. (2003, Times Archive) [ CERRI, LARA | St. Petersburg Times ] The warning signs were clear: The Piney Point fertilizer plant was headed for disaster. State regulators knew in 1995 that the owner, Mulberry Corp., was struggling. If […]
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DEP says Piney Point biggest threat to environment
MANATEE COUNTY — A top Department of Environmental Protection official said Tuesday that the defunct Piney Point phosphate plant is the state’s biggest threat to the environment. “This site constitutes one of the largest risks to the environment in Florida’s history,” DEP Deputy Secretary Allan Bedwell said. “It’s our most significant environmental challenge.” In a […]
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Neighbors fear health effects of blowing gypsum
STRATHCONA COUNTY – A group in Strathcona County is fighting a 120-hectare expansion of Agrium’s Redwater plant, saying heavy industry has brought ill health and made it impossible to sell their properties. “Nobody wants to leave, we love it here,” said Cheryl Henkelman, one of about 20 residents who filed statements of concern with Alberta […]
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Fears over level of toxic fluoride: Homegrown produce threatened by emissions
After years of feeding her family with homegrown vegetables, Ravensbourne resident Ruth Bayne is questioning whether she has been doing the right thing. It was with horror she read in the Otago Daily Times last week that tests on vegetables from several Ravensbourne gardens recorded fluoride levels many times the recommended safe maximum as a […]
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Groundwater contamination from Australian phosphate plant
THE Department of Environment wants Wesfarmers CSBP to take urgent action to stop further groundwater contamination from the polluted site of its former fertiliser plant in Bayswater. A consultant’s report has detected contaminated groundwater up to 400m from the former Cresco plant in Railway Parade. The report, submitted to the department on May 15, found […]
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Concerns over high levels of fluoride
Ravensbourne residents hope a new $2.5 million “hygiene scrubber” at the Ravensdown Fertiliser works will make their vegetables safe to eat. Emissions from the works mean vegetables in Ravensbourne gardens have recorded fluoride levels many times the recommended limit. Works manager Craig Hendry said yesterday the plant would shut down on Sunday for a month […]
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Waste Water Heading To Gulf With Federal OK
PALMETTO – The federal government on Wednesday gave the state permission to dump more than half a billion gallons of waste water from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant into the Gulf of Mexico. But an improved way to treat the water could cut the amount dumped in the Gulf – possibly by 1 million […]
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Piney Point: 500-million gallons of acidic waste heading to gulf
TAMPA — In an unprecedented move, federal regulators announced Thursday they will allow Florida to dispose 500-million gallons of acidic wastewater into the Gulf of Mexico. The waste from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate mine in Manatee County could be loaded onto barges and sprayed into the gulf starting in two weeks, said Allan Bedwell, […]
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Piney Point: Phosphate Nightmare
Given the unfortunate options before them, Florida regulators probably have no choice but to use the Gulf of Mexico as a sewer for phosphate waste. But let no one in state government mark this off as unavoidable environmental fate. What is happening with this massive heap of phosphogypsum waste near Port Manatee was foreseeable and […]
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Gypsum Stacks Cleanup Costly
TALLAHASSEE – State environmental regulators say they need to spend $45 million in the coming year to pump 750 million gallons of contaminated water from a former phosphate fertilizer plant in Manatee County. Nearly 800 million gallons of acid- laden water is stored atop radioactive phosphogypsum stacks at the Piney Point plant near Port Manatee. […]
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