Florida officials scrambling to empty wastewater reservoir after leak found
DeSantis issues a state of emergency
The Piney Point breach is impacting residents in the area.
By: WFTS Staff
and last updated 2021-04-05 10:32:06-04
PALMETTO, Fla. â Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a State of Emergency for Manatee County on Saturday due to a leak at the old Piney Point phosphate mine.
DeSantis and county administrators announced Sunday during a news conference that the goal is to ensure the integrity of the gypsum stack as quickly as possible in order to minimize impacts to local residents and to prevent an uncontrolled discharge.
Manatee County declares local state of emergency after contaminated water leak at Piney Point
Contaminated water released into Tampa Bay
and last updated 2021-04-01 22:33:50-04
PINEY POINT, Fla. â Manatee County declares a local state of emergency following a leak at Piney Point.
âWorking on this 24 hours a day. I was home yesterday for the first time in 7 days for five hours. To take shower and change clothes,â said Jeff Barath, site manager Piney Point.
Barath and engineers have been working around the clock, since learning about a leak that could cause a collapse of the gypsum stacks, holding hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water.
New Tech Provided Better European Neanderthal Dating Results
“Dating is crucial in archaeology,” explained Tom Higham , a University of Oxford archaeologist and study participant affiliated with the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, where the new tests were performed.
“Without a reliable framework of chronology we can’t really be confident in understanding the relationships between Neanderthals and
as we moved into Europe 45,000 years ago and they began to disappear. That’s why these methods are so exciting, because they provide much more accurate and reliable dates.” Tom Higham
In search of confirmatory evidence, the archaeologists applied the new dating techniques to European Neanderthalspecimens found in two other caves in Belgium, Engis and Fonds-de-Forêt. The radiocarbon accelerator produced similar results for these remains, locating them within the same 42,200 38,600 BC time frame that had been assigned to the Spy Cave specimens.
Recycling giant Suez says the powerful herbicides that contaminated a batch of compost produced at its Melbourne facility late last year, killing hundreds of home vegetable gardens, came from council green waste.