Leaking Phosphogypsum Liner in Port Manatee, Florida

The protective lining for one of the abandoned phosphogypsum stacks at the old Piney Point facility has torn, allowing potentially contaminated seawater to gush from the site. Immense water pressure from the stack’s leak is pushing into an underground drain and then into a lined stormwater ditch, causing a bulge and cracking along the south wall of the south stack.