TAMPA, Fla — This year’s leak at Piney Point definitely got people’s attention when it comes to gypsum stacks in our area. And now one of the biggest stacks in Florida — also with a history of issues ...

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POLK COUNTY, Fla. — An investigation is examining potential issues with the repairs to the massive sinkhole that opened at the gypsum stack at Mosaic's New Wales phosphate mining facility in August ...

POLK County, Fla. (WFLA) – It was an estimated 100-foot-wide sinkhole, about 300 feet deep into the soil of Polk County that swallowed 215 million gallons of wastewater from Mosaic Fertilizer’s New ...

Rising above the flat landscape of west-central Florida are towering ponds of acidic wastewater sitting atop mounds of a mildly radioactive material called phosphogypsum. Rising above the flat ...