Latest on the FL pollution barge to the Gulf of Mexico. Faulty equipment.

[madfloridian]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030724/NEWS/307240523/1060

SNIP...." A barge hauling millions of gallons of treated waste water to be dumped into the Gulf wasn't properly equipped for the job and had to return to Port Manatee with nearly half its load.

The mishap is one in a long line of problems that have kept the state Department of Environmental Protection from removing the highly acidic water from the defunct Piney Point phosphate processing plant.

The department originally said all the waste water in the barge was dumped, but later said a substantial amount was brought back to port.

The DEP is in a race to lower water levels at the plant before rains push the water over or through the gypsum stack containing it. Such a spill into Bishop Harbor and Tampa Bay could kill millions of fish and harm both water bodies for decades, DEP officials have said...."END SNIP

Even the efforts of Jeb's Florida to pollute the Gulf rather than the state are working. There is also a stack like this in our county, and it is almost impossible to find out information.