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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 .
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 ...
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?
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.
Piney Point Formation, a geologic formation in Virginia Piney Point Light , an historic lighthouse in Maryland Piney Point phosphate plant , an industrial site in Florida
In 2021, Florida leaders authorized the release of 215 million gallons of contaminated water into Tampa Bay to avoid catastrophe. Two years after environmental disaster, how close is Piney Point ...
In 2021, one of the dams breached at Piney Point phosphate plant into the Tampa Bay. [29] Because of its marine origins, Florida soil is naturally high in phosphorus. [30] Coupled with fertilizer, this often has resulted in excessive phosphorus in water runoff to nearby bodies of water.