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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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City, county point fingers as sewage creates smelly problem for Tampa resident

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Sewage can be a real issue in St. Petersburg, as Tropical Storm Colin recently illustrated. A blocked pipe, where things get backed up, and people get messy. On the other side of Tampa Bay, this very same problem is making life difficult – and no doubt smelly – for one Tampa resident. Janice Albury, 53, owns and operates See Saw Junction, a Hillsborough County day care center located at 8720 N. 40th Street in Tampa. On four separate occasions between…

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St. Pete council agrees to spend millions to fix sewer problems

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In the wake of a tropical storm that saw St. Petersburg dump millions of gallons of partially treated wastewater into Tampa Bay, City Council members agreed Thursday on several initiatives designed to start replacing and repairing a deteriorated sewer system. But council members agreed repairs won’t come quickly enough to prevent another overflow. “We will be dealing with serious spill events over the summer, and we need to be straightforward about that,” council member Darden Rice said. The sooner something…

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St. Petersburg to discharge partially treated wastewater into Tampa Bay

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St. Petersburg has released partially treated wastewater into Tampa Bay from the Albert Whitted wastewater facility, which is currently being used for storage capacity. The city is allowed to do this under its wastewater treatment permit because of the stress placed on the system by Tropical Storm Colin and the flooding of the system from processing wastewater for St. Pete Beach, Gulfport and Treasure Island. This permit allows bypassing around wastewater plants when unusual emergency circumstances are experienced. This bypass…

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Five burning questions for Rick Kriseman and Bob Buckhorn

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Two Tampa Bay giants had fielded questions last week at the Suncoast Tiger Bay luncheon. St. Pete and Tampa Mayors Rick Kriseman and Bob Buckhorn delivered a “state of Tampa Bay” speech before members of the nonpartisan club take their gloves off to do what Tigers do best — “carve a politician up for lunch.” So while this group of politically savvy insiders came armed with an array of excellent questions for the oft-dueling mayors on opposite sides of the Bay, here…

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St. Pete City Council approves biosolids project funding

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St. Pete City Council approved approximately $67 million for upgrades to the city’s biosolids program. The Biosolids and Waste to Energy Project is expected to make the city’s wastewater treatment procedures more sustainable and come with significant savings. “The Biosolids and Waste to Energy Project will provide a means to produce a sustainable Class A biosolids suitable for use as a soil amendment, reduce operational costs for biosolids processing by consolidating operations at the [Southwest Water Reclamation Facility], provide needed…

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Top St. Pete headlines in 2015: No. 2 – Raw sewage

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As 2015 winds down we took a look back at the year’s news in St. Pete and came up with a list of the top 10 most absorbing events. Whether the news evoked outrage in a community, excitement or even heartbreak, these are the top headlines of 2015. No. 2 – Raw sewage Since August, Mayor Rick Kriseman has been plagued by toilet water. After the city experienced what was described as a 100-year rain event, his administration made the…

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