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Officials Say Second Breach Concern Discovered in Florida Phosphate Reservoir
A drone discovered a possible second breach in a large Florida wastewater reservoir as more pumps were headed to the site to prevent a catastrophic flood, officials said Monday.
U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican, toured the area by helicopter Monday and said federal resources were committed to assisting the effort to control the 77-acre Piney Point reservoir in Manatee County, just south of the Tampa Bay area.
Among those are the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, Buchanan said at a news conference.
“I think we are making some progress,” Buchanan said. “This is something that has been going on too long. Now, I think everybody is focused on this.”
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A leak in a contaminated reservoir has caused evacuations in Manatee County, Florida.
A second possible leak was spotted in the reservoir on Monday morning, but officials later said it was not a leak.
Officials said engineers were installing 20 emergency pumps to mitigate the danger.
Engineers determined that an anomaly spotted by an infrared drone in a contaminated Florida reservoir was not a possible second leak, state officials announced Monday. There have been news reports of a second area of seepage from the east wall of the NGS-South compartment at Piney Point, according to the announcement from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. These reports are unsubstantiated.
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