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Florida Institute of Phosphate Research Accused of Whitewashing
BARTOW — Charging a “whitewash,” a local environmental activist has resigned from a state phosphate research agency’s environmental education panel. Marian Ryan, a Winter Haven resident active in the Sierra Club, resigned Jan. 5 from the Educational Advisory Committee run by the Bartow-based Florida Institute of Phosphate Research. But institute officials dispute that charge, saying […]
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Piney Point: Phosphate Discharge to Resume
ST. PETERSBURG – Sometime between Christmas and New Year’s, the flow of waste from an abandoned Manatee County phosphate plant into a shallow harbor off Tampa Bay will resume. Ten million gallons of partially treated waste water were discharged last month before alarmed Bay watchers persuaded the state to suspend the operation. This time, the […]
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Phosphate Plant to Dump Excess Wastewater
ST. PETERSBURG – Emergency releases of wastewater from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant into Bishop Harbor likely will resume soon after Christmas, officials said Thursday. The discharges will come after officials add an extra layer of water treatment to safeguard sensitive ecosystems, and likely will continue indefinitely while they seek other ways to safely […]
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Groups seek solution for wastewater woes
PINEY POINT – The fate of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater at the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant may come into focus Thursday, when area leaders gather for talks in St. Petersburg. Officials and activists will try to hammer out a plan for disposing of the highly acidic water – millions of gallons of […]
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DEP let phosphate waste flow into preserve
The state agency in charge of protecting Florida’s environment has allowed the dumping of millions of gallons of waste from a shuttered Manatee County phosphate plant into an aquatic preserve at the mouth of Tampa Bay. Since Oct. 22, the state Department of Environmental Protection has allowed the Piney Point Phosphates plant to pump 10-million […]
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A mining showdown at Horse Creek
The puddle-deep stream known as Halls Branch trickles through the shadows of sand pines and water oaks near the rural Hillsborough County community of Welcome. As it meanders to a rendezvous with the Alafia River, its quiet burbling is easily drowned out by the urgent “beep-beep-beep” of earthmovers pushing dirt around an old mine nearby. […]
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Sheep Herd Dies from Contamination at Phosphate Mine
CONDA — Between 150 and 160 sheep died last month after drinking from a spring containing lethal amounts of selenium, a waste product of the phosphate mining process. The sheep, which belonged to Alicia Dredge, were grazing a stretch of private land located downhill from a reclaimed phosphate mine northeast of Soda Springs. Wayne Cutler, […]
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Radiation victims urged to file claims
WILLOWBROOK — Margaret Dennison was stonewalled before she even got started. But others with the same concerns weren’t. Dennison, of Plainfield, was upset officials would not let her read a statement at a public information session set up Wednesday night to offer claim forms for those who may be eligible for federal compensation because they, […]
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Mining Threat
The Florida agency known as DEP needs a reminder that the P stands for protection, not permissiveness. Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection say they will approve a phosphate mining permit on 2,400 acres of ranch land in Manatee County, including part of a creek that feeds a public water supply and nourishes Charlotte […]
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Opposition builds to stop mine
The two-lane country road rambles through rural Manatee County, abruptly veering to the right at a ranch fence. Beyond the fence lies a broad pasture, flat as a plank, where rust-colored cattle loll in the shade of the occasional oak. Far from the highway a modest stream trickles southward, its flow fed by ditches dug […]
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