MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County commissioners recently approved plans to construct a deep injection well at the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant. The more than $9 million project ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — The Florida Department of Environmental Protection this week finalized an agreement with a new court-appointed receiver to oversee the closure of the former Piney Point ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – As the drainage at Piney Point continues, with millions of gallons of water being pumped out of the reservoir and into Tampa Bay, one engineering solution is picking up ...

Standing atop the phosphogypsum stacks at Piney Point phosphate plant, you look at the settling pond that has caused a lot of trouble in the past, including releasing more than 200 million gallons ...

Earlier this year, more than 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater were discharged into local waters because of a leak at Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility in Manatee County, ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s been two years since one of Piney Point’s gypstacks suffered a breach which led to the discharge of 215 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay. Since then, ...

A three-hour meeting gave residents a look at how it will be done. For county officials, the meeting was the last box for them to check before getting the go ahead from the Department of Environmental ...

Though a precise connection can't yet be drawn, all signs are pointing to a deep-well injection project by the Bureau of Reclamation as the genesis of an unusually large earthquake felt across the ...

At Tuesday's Jackson County Board of County Commissioners meeting, Waste Management announced it withdrew the test well permit it applied for in 2017. The well was proposed as a way to manage treated ...

After the catastrophic leak into Tampa Bay of more than 200 million gallons of wastewater from the former Piney Point phosphate plant, the obvious question was where do we go from here? Even groups ...

WEATHERSFIELD — AWMS Water Solutions of Howland, the company that owns two oil and gas wastewater injection wells along state Route 169 in Weathersfield Township just north of Niles, says the outcome ...