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Sinkhole leaks fertilizer plant’s water into Florida aquifer

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A phosphate company says more than 200 million gallons of contaminated waste water from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked into one of the state’s main underground sources of drinking water after a massive sinkhole opened up beneath a storage pond. Mosaic, the world’s largest supplier of phosphate, said the hole opened up beneath a pile of waste material called a “gypsum stack.” The 215-million gallon storage pond sat atop the waste mineral pile. The company said the sinkhole…

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Stone knife shows evidence of first Americans

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Archaeologists say they’ve uncovered a stone knife in a sinkhole near Tallahassee that dates back 14,550 years. The scientists published their results last week and say the knife is evidence that people were in North America prior to the Clovis period. For most of the past century, archaeologists believed the first people known as the Clovis Culture arrived about 13,000 years ago. But they say the knife, along with other evidence, show people gathered around a small pond near what’s…

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60-foot hole opens in Florida trailer park

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About 20 residents in six homes at a mobile home park along Florida’s Gulf Coast were evacuated Wednesday after a 60-foot-wide, 35-foot-deep hole opened in the ground. The residents at the Tarpon Shores Mobile Home Park in Tarpon Springs were taken to the park’s nearby clubhouse as a precaution while officials take a closer look at the hole, said city spokeswoman Judy Staley. The Tampa Bay Times reported that authorities were investigating whether a water line break is responsible or…

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Senate panel unanimously OKs standalone sinkhole insurance bill

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A Senate committee Tuesday unanimously approved a bill enabling insurance companies to sell standalone sinkhole policies for damages falling short of catastrophic loss, reports LobbyTools. The bill “would allow people to go out on the market and buy sinkhole coverage, standalone, not tied to their homeowner’s insurance,” said Sen. Jack Latvala, sponsor of Senate Bill 1274. Even though the bill was intended to be a “free market” solution, Latvala, a Clearwater Republican, told LobbyTools that individual regulatory agencies – such…

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