Or let us know that. Its a pretty big sink hole. Thats a big sink hole, yeah. Reporter as action air 1 flew over the sink hole, we watched the live stream of the abc action news app. My First Impression is that this the simple size and the depth of that sink hole, its obviously it must have been a large void. Reporter usf geologist phillip ben ennham reacting in real time. Do with all of the rain that we have had, with hurricane hermine. It is possible. Think of the sponge as the florida aquifer. Its porous because of the limestone. Think of this as the stack, the Storage Facility where the sink hole is now. Its leaking. And you pour the water on top of the sponge. And what happens . It gets saturated and all of the dirty polluted water is leaking through and penetrating the aquifer on the other side. Look at the stain. Reporter the doctor believes that the contamination will be confined to the immediate area near the mosaic plant in mulberry giving people like james reason to ask ques
We begin with pasco county deputies. He ran out of his burning home. It caught fire as he was cooking marijuana wax. Investigators are hunting him down but tonight, hes still on the run. This home is an empty shell of charred debris. The man who lived here, let two dogs die so he could save his drugs. This is steven brown. Pasco deputies say hes a hardened drug dealer. They say he started this fire that sparked his home in port ritchie. September 3rd, mayor took out his phone and started rolling. He caused the fire by trying to make the wax form marijuana. Something happened and it caused an explosion and fire. The 1yearold baby, girlfriend and two dogs were inside. He left the house and left the two dogs that were caged up. Instead of saving the dogs, he wants to save the dogs. Deputies arrested his girlfriend and his friend, they say the same is intact for brown or anyone else helping him. If youre hiding him, everybody will be also. And browns child was unharmed and in state custody
Facility. We want to capture it. It is contaminated with tradeyo active material, more than 200 million gallons have poured in. And the water that went down is not Drinking Water quality. We would not want it to intercept it. Reporter were told this started august 27th. The level was dropping near a gym sum it was draining into the sinkhole and down into the acquifer. The public is frustrated it did not find out until yesterday. And the director of environmental projects said there is a reason for the delay, we know the contamination has not my greated beyond the area of the incident it is not a urgency, and none of the contaminated water left the into their own wells, we will not allow it to my great. It is offering to test the well water with the assuress a lot of people are worried. It is upsetting especially when you have three children. I think it is ridiculous, are they seeping into the wells t is scary. Reporter the federal and state environmental agencies have been notified wer
Contain 215 million gallons of radioactive water. Water swallowed by a sink hole at a phosphate plant. 8 on your side reporter Steve Andrews exposed it all last night. Tonight, steve has your update. Reporter the sink hole beneath this gypsum stack opened august 27. It sucked 215 million gallons of radioactive water into the aqfe how deep was this go . No one knows for sure. The immediate concern. Threat to the public. There is no threat to the public. Reporter the water was in a containment pool. It was used to produce fertilizer. The mission, contain contaminated water on mosaics new plant. Stop it from spreading to the wells of neighbors like jen. I am not too concerned now. I have been here long enough to was designed to capture the plume. It is starting to detect traces. Reporter whats the plan to fix the hole . Do what they did in 1994 and again in 2004 when sink holes opened on this property. Inject a stabilizing cement or grout. Fill the hole. The Florida Department of Environm
Necessarily mountainsing closer to shore. Theyre sitting off the pasco and necessarily moving closer to the shore. Theyre sitting off the pasco and Pinellas County line. I dont expect as much rain at all today. Only about a 20 chance at midday. And 30 chance for spotty afternoon storms. Otherwise, on the last full day of summer, it will feel every bit of it with coming up in weather and traffic on the 8s, two systems im watching and leslee has an eye on the roadways. I do. We have a pretty good drive. Lets check u. S. 19 and u. S. 41. Both look very good through palm harbor and the land olakes area and the bay area bridge, all of them up to speed. Here is i4 out in lakeland. Looks great by the polk parkway. Downtown lake lake, no delays thank you. A killer on the loose this morning. Someone murdered the 95year old in his Highlands County home. Reporter were told he was violently murdered inside and of his had home and now investigators want to the speak with people who were recently do