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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 130-foot-tall tower is part of the construction equipment for a new deep-injection well at the treatment plant. Deep-injection wells are used to send water concentrated with minerals, a byproduct ...