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. (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 ...

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. (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, ...

South Florida is desperate for a solution to Lake Okeechobee’s high-water discharges that hurt the coastal estuaries, their people, economies, and ecosystems. But proposed deep injection wells (DIW) ...

The nonprofit Safe Water for Walton organization and many local elected officials oppose Waste Management’s proposed deep injection well that would send hazardous landfill wastewater deep underground.

Diana Umpierre’s recent oped on deep injection wells being costly and a waste of water gets the facts wrong about an extremely effective tool in managing excess water that is commonly used in nearly ...

The feds recently scrapped the idea of sending stormwater 3,000 feet beneath sea level as a way to deal with heavy rain events and the damaging Lake Okeechobee discharges they ultimately lead to.

Water managers voted Thursday to move forward with a plan to pump billions of gallons of water 3,000 feet or so beneath ground during heavy rain events. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last month ...