Water from Piney Point continues to drain into a deep well two years after a nearly “catastrophic” leak threatened to collapse a reservoir full of contaminated water.
It's been years since a leaking pond at a phosphate plant in Manatee County forced the state to drain more than 200 million gallons of contaminated water into Tampa Bay.
Piney Point is finally pumping to the injection well. Herbert Donica, the court-appointed receiver for Piney Point, said it’s still in the early phases.
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