Piney Point is the site of one of Florida’s worst ecological disasters in recent years. The Tampa Bay Times toured the plant recently to get an update on its closure.

This aerial photo taken from an airplane shows a reservoir near the old Piney Point phosphate mine, Saturday, April 3, 2021 in Bradenton, Fla. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of ...

Our local journalists are covering the situation in Piney Point and possible impacts to the area. It's a situation our newsroom has been covering and highlighting for years. Local journalism like ...

Plan to store Piney Point waste in deep well faces pushback from environmental groups By Ryan Callihan. Updated October 01, 2021 4:15 PM. Manatee.

Site operators at Piney Point, ... one that began leaking in 2021 — into Manatee County Government’s newly constructed deep injection well that will store the water 3,300 feet underground. ...

Piney Point stores phosphogypsum — the waste from processing phosphate — in stacks that sit in reservoirs. The stacks are covered with a liner that separate the material from the ...

A rapidly developing emergency at Piney Point, a former phosphate processing plant in Manatee County, endangers the surrounding area and Tampa Bay with potential flooding and likely contamination.

The loan was eventually consolidated into a single promissory note of $17.5 million and was never paid back in full. Meanwhile, HRK’s main reason for purchasing Piney Point was to store dredged ...

State officials received roughly 7,000 emails on its move to issue a draft permit for a Class I underground injection control well that would store Piney Point’s remaining wastewater.

Site operators at Piney Point, ... one that began leaking in 2021 — into Manatee County Government’s newly constructed deep injection well that will store the water 3,300 feet underground. ...