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In Shadows Of Coronet, Questions On Health Persist
PLANT CITY – Juanita Burnett shuffled from the parking lot to the recreation center, her stooped frame supported by a stout wooden cane. She paused every now and then to catch her breath, which has grown short and becomes shorter with each passing year. “For a long time they thought it was my heart,” she […]
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Fertilizer Companies Merge Into A Giant
TAMPA – A merger that was made final over the weekend created the second-largest fertilizer company in the world. Cargill Crop Nutrition and IMC Global merged their operations to form the publicly traded company, Mosaic Co. Shares began trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MOS. The stock closed at $15. […]
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Will EPA Rethink Gypsum Policy?
WASHINGTON — Recent spills of contaminated water from phosphogypsum stacks have added to pressure from a Polk County congressman for the Environmental Protection Agency to allow an alternative use of radioactive gypsum. Critics of federal gypsum policy expect the EPA to approve an experimental permit to dump 50 tons of the industrial byproduct into a […]
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Cargill Was Told Thin Berm A Threat
TAMPA – State authorities warned a fertilizer company a month ago that it was holding too much acidic wastewater behind a dike that was too thin atop a 180-foot-high gypsum stack. Storm-driven waves broke through the dike Sunday, spilling millions of gallons of polluted water into a creek that feeds Hillsborough Bay. As the water […]
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An unacceptable breach
Huge, slow-moving tropical storms are bound to damage roads, utilities and buildings in the Tampa Bay area, but the mountainous spill of acidic waste from Cargill Crop Nutrition is not an acceptable casualty of Frances. A wall along one side of the 10-story-high phosphogypsum stack broke Sunday, presumably under the strain of heavy wind and […]
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Spill corrodes reputation for aiding environment
TAMPA – A month ago, Cargill Crop Nutrition received an award for its environmental stewardship. On Tuesday, company representatives stood watch as government officials surveyed the environmental damage created when the fertilizer manufacturer dumped 60-million gallons of acidic water into a creek leading to Hillsborough Bay. Water in the bay tested normal on Tuesday, but […]
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Wastewater Spill Is Worrisome
TAMPA – More than 41 million gallons of acidic wastewater spilled by a fertilizer company into a Hillsborough Bay tributary could cause significant environmental damage. Cargill Crop Nutrition, a unit of Cargill Inc., faces the possibility of regulatory as well as ecological fallout from the spill that resulted from a reservoir breach amid Hurricane Frances […]
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Cargill Scrambles To Mitigate Wastewater’s Effect On Creek
TAMPA – A storm-induced breach at a reservoir Sunday caused a fertilizer company to dump acidic wastewater into a creek that feeds Hillsborough Bay. State environmental officials said the threat could amount to millions of gallons. A Cargill Crop Nutrition spokesman said company engineers did not know how much was being poured into Archie Creek […]
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Cargill Scrambles To Mitigate Wastewater’s Effect On Creek
TAMPA – A storm-induced breach at a reservoir Sunday caused a fertilizer company to dump acidic wastewater into a creek that feeds Hillsborough Bay. State environmental officials said the threat could amount to millions of gallons. A Cargill Crop Nutrition spokesman said company engineers did not know how much was being poured into Archie Creek […]
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Breach Sends Acidic Waste Into Bay
TAMPA – As much as 120 million gallons of acidic wastewater is flowing into Hillsborough Bay from a breach in the retention reservoir at Cargill Fertilizer, authorities said late this afternoon. The storm-related rupture occurred this morning as the company was trying to drain some of the reservoir, said Colleen Castille, secretary of the state […]
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