Crews begin pumping millions of gallons of treated wastewater from Piney Point into underground well

On Tuesday in Manatee County, workers started  injecting water from the Piney Point phosphate plant into an underground well.

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[jeanniewenzlaff]

Really? Let's make note of this and I'm betting it will become an issue sooner than they tell us it could. I'm so disappointed with this state and yes, I vote and not just every 4 years!

[francismarion]

I remember when the media convinced people it was radioactive waste.

[doit]

A deep well! Way underground!!!
... Thought that one through all the way

[pex]

Putting waste water in a underground well sounds like a mass poisoning.

[Shiesty]

There’s a lake like this close to my house and every evening the entire area around it reeks like petro or gas smell smh

[c_lo]

This wont be a problem in the future. I got weird ohio "the water is safe to drink" vibes.

[Weezy.Sleazy]

No way possible they took 99% of nitrogen out of that water lmao😂🤡 if you could filter it that good, why not just dump it in the bay?

[clarkwall]

A disaster followed by another disaster

[gregadams]

No mention of Desantis forcing them to speed up the process.

[flyfun]

Didn't ACcur to the reporters to ask a common sense question that even a 10-year-old would. how injecting contaminated water into the ground at any deeph is good for the environment.

[janina]

Well I hope so because I live just a couple miles from Piney Point and rely on well water. My water has always been the best from a very deep aquifer and my home is paid for. I don’t want to ever have to be on city water. I can taste the chemicals in it when I drink it compared to my great tasting water.

[terrestrialtoker]

How do they think it's a good idea to inject polluted water into the ground. Do they not think this problem will arise again or cause the water to seep into uncalculated areas? Whatever I guess, a problem for another day smh.