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Piney Point phosphate plant is an industrial site in Manatee County, Florida and the location of a former fertilizer plant. The land is currently owned by HRK Holdings, which leases portions of the land to industrial tenants under the name Eastport .
What to know about Piney Point, a former industrial site that threatened the health of Tampa Bay. A leaking radioactive mound led to a crisis in Florida. What’s next for the toxic site?
Piney Point’s past. After opening in 1966, Piney Point operated for nearly 40 years. The site, which sits on the east side of Tampa Bay near Manatee County’s northern border, collected ...
The state also agreed to fund $75,000 in independent water quality testing near Piney Point to be overseen by the Tampa Bay Estuary Program. In return, the environmental groups agreed to dismiss ...
Most recently in March 2021, millions of gallons of industrial wastewater from the former Piney Point fertilizer processing plant in Manatee County was released into Tampa Bay in response to the facility’s second leak in a decade. DEP permitted the controlled release into the Port of Manatee waters in Manatee Harbor to prevent such a failure.
The state says that if the company continues to operate the former phosphate mining facility, "irreparable harm is likely to occur."
The Bone Valley mining district, also known as the Central Florida district, or the Florida Land-Pebble district, is centered in Polk County, Florida, and extends into Hardee, Hillsborough, and Manatee counties. As of 2013, phosphate was being extracted from five mines in the district, all operated by Mosaic.
Algae bloomed, likely supercharged by the contaminated water released last year from the old Piney Point fertilizer plant property. The wastewater was bad for Tampa Bay, but measuring how bad is ...