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More leaks appear at Piney Point

Jan 9, 2022 – Cindy Lane
September 20, 2021
By Rusty Chinnis

Reel Time: Pick up some trash, win some cash

PALMETTO – Suncoast Aqua Ventures will hold its 5th Annual Reef and Beach Cleanup the weekend of Oct. 2-3 at the Bradenton Yacht Club, 4307 13th St. W. Suncoast Aqua Ventures was formed in 201…
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September 4, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Rainfall threatens to overfill Piney Point ponds

Piney Point deep water injection well draft permit issued

PALMETTO – The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) has issued a draft permit for Manatee County to build and test an underground injection well to store contaminated water from Pine…
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August 30, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Piney Point under new management

UPDATED AUG. 30, 2021 at 7:15 P.M. – PALMETTO – Piney Point is now under the management of an independent third-party receiver who will oversee the closure of the former phosphate plant, which has po…
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August 23, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Rainfall threatens to overfill Piney Point ponds

Rainfall could prompt second discharge at Piney Point

PALMETTO – As summer rainfall fills a near-capacity pond of contaminated water at Piney Point, state environmental officials are sounding the alarm about a possible second discharge into Tampa Bay…
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August 9, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Florida DEP sues Piney Point owner

PALMETTO – The owners of Piney Point have been sued a second time in six weeks, this time by their co-defendant, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The closed phosphate processing…
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July 11, 2021
By Cindy Lane

Worst year ever for Florida manatees

MANATEE COUNTY – By July 2 – halfway into 2021 – 841 manatees had died in Florida waters, more than in each of the two worst years in Florida’s history. In 2018, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Cons…
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July 4, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Conservation groups sue over Piney Point discharge

Conservation groups sue over Piney Point discharge

PORT MANATEE – The dumping of 215 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay this spring from a phosphogypsum stack at the closed Piney Point phosphate fertilizer plant has prompted five conservati…
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May 18, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

Piney Point spill leads to lawsuit

TAMPA BAY – Five conservation groups issued a notice today saying they intend to file a federal lawsuit over the intentional discharge of “hundreds of tons of pollutants into Tampa Bay” earlier this…
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May 17, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

Piney Point pollution spreading, affecting dolphins

TAMPA BAY – The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program at Mote Marine is monitoring the dolphin community near Port Manatee for impacts from the April discharge of 215 million gallons of polluted water fr…
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May 9, 2021
By Cindy Lane
Lyngbya bloom clogging bays, ICW

Blue-green algae bloom clogging bays, ICW

Nutrients and warming temperatures are feeding a bloom of blue-green algae called Lyngbya in area waters, according to scientists with Manatee County. As has been the case over the last two years…
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