Listen • 1:04
Governor Ron DeSantis said he deployed the National Guard to provide pumps to help drain the Piney Point reservoir.
Governor Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida Department of Emergency Management on Sunday toured a leaking phosphate processing pond in Manatee County where the threat of a larger breach could send hundreds of millions of gallons of water into the neighboring area and Tampa Bay.
DeSantis issued a state of emergency on Saturday and sent in the National Guard to provide pumps in an attempt to drain the reservoir before the hole in the earthen dam becomes larger.
Authorities had stated on Saturday that such a breach was imminent and could send a wall of water into the surrounding area, which is south of Sun City near the Hillsborough County line.