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USF Response to Piney Point Spill
USF leads first research cruise to study Piney Point’s environmental impact
April 8, 2021
Written by Kristen Kusek, Communications Director for USF CMS
A team from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (USF CMS) embarked on the first research cruise in Tampa Bay on April 7, 2021 to study the environmental impacts of the breach at Piney Point that started in March. Piney Point is a retired fertilizer processing plant in Manatee County, Florida. It was the first of what will be several sampling efforts.
“We were lucky to be able to mobilize this group in short order,” said Tom Frazer, dean of the CMS. “This presents a unique opportunity for these scientists to do
Wastewater from Piney Point has Tampa Bay on edge for possible red tide, algae bloom
Scientists are ramping up their efforts to track the nutrient-rich wastewater, contaminated by the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack, that’s being dumping into Florida’s Tampa Bay, as concern remains high that it could supercharge potential toxic algae blooms, including red tide.
Ultimately, it will take weeks and months for the effects of the wastewater to be fully realized, assistant director of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program Maya Burke told CNN.
But what’s actually in the wastewater already has some people concerned.
Officials have yet to describe the water’s pollution in detail, and parts of the in-depth results from water sampling done by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection remain absent from its website. However, the wastewater has previously been described broadly by officials as having elevated levels of nitrogen and phosphorus, being acidic and not radioactive, and th