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The go-ahead has been given to injecting polluted water from the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County deep under the drinking water aquifer.
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New grant funding will expand the research on algae bloom nutrients in three ways: a more expensive lab analysis, another kind of bloom added to the study, and a bilingual educational program created for the public.
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About 267 million gallons are currently held in the structure, up from about 200 million gallons before the summer.
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The state is seeking the maximum allowable penalties and recovery of costs and damages from HRK Holdings.
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The primary defendant is the state Department of Environmental Regulation, which allowed the plant's operators to refill the gypsum stack several years ago with sea water being dredged at nearby Port Manatee.
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Tom Frazer, the dean and a professor at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, said the phosphate plant could be helping to fuel the outbreak.
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Three months ago, a rupture at the former Piney Point phosphate plant sent hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic water into Tampa Bay. We take a tour of one towering "gypstack" to see what's being done to keep that from happening again.
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In the first segment of our ongoing series on phosphate mines, WUSF reports on the long, tangled history of Florida's phosphate mines and the environment. Thursday, we take a look at the one company that's still mining phosphate in Central Florida.
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An emergency order issued in April by Florida's Department of Environmental Protection expired this week.
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Piney Point's owner is among the targets of the lawsuit, which seeks a full cleanup and closure of the former phosphate plant.
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A groundwater expert says treating the millions of gallons of polluted water remaining at the former phosphate plant in Manatee County could be very costly, and that pumping it down an injection well is not as uncommon or concerning as some may think.
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The Florida Department of Environmental Protection says varying levels of cyanotoxins have been identified, increasing chances that the discharge at Piney Point will trigger a blue-green algae bloom.