Technicians, whose job is to monitor water levels in the ponds when they were making their rounds identified that there was a water level drop. Reporter 215 million gallons of contaminated water used to process fertilizer is drained into the hole. We activated a recovery well so that we can capture any water that has gone down the hole. Reporter so far, the wells have not detected any additional contaminants in the ground however, the company says the entire process to pump out all could take months. D water guys, just to give you an update and kind of an overview of how huge the hole is, were told its about 45 feet wide and so deep they cant see to the bottom of it. This is an issue they will have to monitor for the next few weeks and possibly months. News. Checking in with the friday forecast. 82 in tampa. Temperatures are running in the low 80s. The current feelslike temps, how it feels outlied, 89 in say outside, 89 in sarasota. You get the idea. It will be another steamer of a day
Not. And this water is contaminated. But, a spokesperson for mosaic is saying that con tam in the watered has not left property hes hoping to sure surrounding Community Folks living in the neighborhoods around here that, that contaminated water is not going to risk to their Drinking Water. The company is also offering to come out to anybodys homes if they are concerned and test that Drinking Water for them. But lets talk about how all of this started. How we got though this point. On water level dropping at one of the plants stacks. And it was quickly determined that a massive 45 foot sinkhole had opened up underneath that stack. Hundreds of millions of gallons of reprocessed water has gushed into the floridian you aquifer. Company immediately notified federal and state environmental agencies and has been taking steps to minimize the potential impact. That includes making sure that any of that contaminated water the aquifer flows then into wells on the companys property. They want to m
80 in st. Petersburg. I have 73. In crystal river. Wauchula 74 degrees this morning and any rain to show you because of a light northeast wind is being maintained to our offshore water. A tiny little sprinkle 60 miles west. We are dry. We are dealing with the wind flow around the back side of still tropical depression julia that is churning to the east that will fall apart later today. With the light northeast winds, afternoon heating gives us a 40 rain showers may be sliding south and west, kind of an unusual flow later on this afternoon and evening. Most of that rain is after 2 p. M. By lunchtime, clouding up. We are at 87. Still hit 90 which is above average and we will keep that rain chance at 40 today. A look to the week ahead see what is changing in our Weather Department and talk tropics. A few areas in the atlantic coming up. And new this morning, Port Richey Police arrest a woman after finding a homeless man dead. Dead next to a business on ridge road. As investigators were lo
No closed captioning is new this Morning Police are searching for the person who took off. During a traffic stop. It happened just a few hours ago, at north 41st and east fern street in tampa. Investigators say officers had pulled the driver over. When the . Passenger hit the gas. The car crashed into a powerpole. And cracked it. People living the driver stayed at the scene. But the passenger took off. And detectives are still looking for them. jen now to a developing situation in polk county. A sinkhole has opened up there. wally its not on a major . Road, but its still causing major . Problems. Thats because its right in the middle. Of the busy mosaic plant campus. wally fox13s shayla could be really tricky reaching this hole. How jen one man is in custody. Charged in the fatal beating of another man in st. Pete beach. It happened thursday afternoon, in a culdesac near 78th avenue and coquina way. Detectives found Kenneth Darling lying on the ground,unresponsive. Later, he was prounc