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Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu
    #23651319 - 09/16/16 07:19 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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A massive sinkhole at a fertilizer plant in Mulberry, Florida, has caused about 215 million gallons of radioactive water to drain down into the Floridian aquifer system, according to ABC affiliate WFTS.

The aquifer system supplies drinking water to millions of Florida residents, according to the St. Johns Water Management District's website. Additionally, water that escapes from the aquifers create springs used for recreational activities like snorkeling and swimming.

The fertilizer company Mosaic wrote on its website that it discovered a sinkhole 45 feet in diameter at its New Wales facility after noticing water levels had dropped in a stack of radioactive waste product known as phosphogypsum in late August.

Phosphogypsum is a waste product resulting from the processing of phosphate to make fertilizers, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The byproduct is often stored by industrial plants in mountainous piles known as phosphogysum stacks.

"Based on the nature of the water loss and what we've learned so far," the sinkhole damaged the liner system at the base of a phosophogypsum stack, Mosaic said on Thursday. "The pond on top of the cell drained as a result" and "some seepage continues."

The fertilizer company added that it believes the sinkhole reached the Floridian aquifer, and WFTS reported that the company told the station about 215 million gallons of contaminated water used to process fertilizer drained had into the hole.

After learning of the water loss, "Mosaic immediately implemented additional and extensive groundwater monitoring and sampling regimens and has found no offsite impacts," the company said. Additionally, Mosaic "began pumping water out of the west cell" of the affected phosphogypsum stack "into an alternative holding area on site to reduce the amount of drainage."

The company has also "begun the process of recovering the water" drained through the sinkhole "by pumping through onsite production wells," it said.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) "confirmed that Mosaic immediately took steps to investigate and initiate corrective action," according to FDEP Deputy Press Secretary Dee Ann Miller.

"As required by their state permit and federal requirements, Mosaic notified both EPA and DEP of a water loss incident at their New Wales facility," Miller told ABC News today. "Mosaic continues to regularly update the department and EPA on progress."

Miller added that along with reviewing daily reports, the FDEP "is performing frequent site visits to make sure timely and appropriate response continues in order to safeguard public health and the environment."




I don't live in or know anyone in Florida really but damn...

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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: musiclover420]
    #23651347 - 09/16/16 07:29 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I live in Florida. Makes me a little paranoid about getting water from a well now :frown:


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: cr1s1s]
    #23651349 - 09/16/16 07:33 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

That didn't turn out nearly as bad as I thought. Good response from the company. Maybe those things should be kept in water tight places in the future.


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: cr1s1s]
    #23651360 - 09/16/16 07:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Are you anywhere near the area where this is happening? Sounds like they are at least dealing with it the best they can...

I don't know how bad phosphogypsum is either, will have to look it up. Wiki doesn't have much on it but this is pertinent:

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Central Florida has a large quantity of phosphate deposits, particularly in the Bone Valley region. However, the marine-deposited phosphate ore from central Florida is weakly radioactive, and as such, the phosphogypsum by-product (in which the radionuclides are somewhat concentrated) is too radioactive to be used for most applications. As a result, there are about 1 billion tons of phosphogypsum stacked in 25 stacks in Florida (22 are in central Florida) and about 30 million new tons are generated each year.




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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: musiclover420]
    #23651364 - 09/16/16 07:38 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

whooopsie daisy
whippy doodle


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: Konyap]
    #23651589 - 09/16/16 09:26 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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musiclover420 said:
Are you anywhere near the area where this is happening? Sounds like they are at least dealing with it the best they can...




Not super close but after reading that excerpt from Wikipedia maybe I'm still drinking radioactive water anyway.  :shrug:
I guess if the sun in central Florida doesn't get you, the water will.

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whooopsie daisy
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lol :doh:


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: cr1s1s]
    #23651640 - 09/16/16 09:44 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Well just becouse its stored there doesn't mean much if any is getting into the water.

I just thought it was interesting to compare the 200 million gallons spilled to the 1+ billion tons or some shit they have stored :eek:


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: musiclover420]
    #23651714 - 09/16/16 10:23 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Now all our bathsalt zika zombies are going to be radioactive too

Shits getting to real over here

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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: Repertoire89]
    #23651738 - 09/16/16 10:43 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Always something going down in Florida, man.


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: Repertoire89]
    #23651792 - 09/16/16 11:11 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

:lolsy:

I won't lie I thought something similiar at first. Florida already gets enough flack for being weird as it.

Maybe Fallout 5 will be in Florida :rofldrunk:


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Re: Florida Fertilizer Plant Sinkhole Reportedly Leaks 215 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into Aqu [Re: musiclover420]
    #23652101 - 09/17/16 03:49 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

you could do a southpark episode of that just have muscular gay crab people walking around and presidential candidates


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