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 ...

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 ...

The 130-foot-tall tower is part of the construction equipment for a new deep-injection well at the treatment plant. Deep-injection wells are used to send water concentrated with minerals, a byproduct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RUNNING DRY: When desalination plants remove salt from water, they're left with concentrated brine that needs to go somewhere.

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, ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — It’s been a little over a year since the disastrous Piney Point leak that poured 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Tampa Bay. Now, drillers say they’ve reached ...

Bradenton Mayor Gene Brown says the city is years ahead of a 2032 deadline to stop discharging treated wastewater into the Manatee River, but there’s still plenty of work to do . One of the newest ...

For many years, America’s rural places have served as dumping grounds. Counties like ours often lack economic opportunity, have lax regulatory environments and hold little political power. That makes ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — The process of pumping 252 million gallons of treated wastewater 3,300 feet underground at about 680 gallons per minute has begun. It’s a massive undertaking, but for those who ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County Commissioners Tuesday voted 6-1 to authorize a deep well injection project at the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant. The construction agreement was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cache of government documents dating back nearly a century casts serious doubt on the safety of the oil and gas industry’s most ...