Contaminated Water From Piney Point Dumped Year’s Worth Of Hazardous Nutrients Into Tampa Bay In Just 10 Days, Study Shows

All it took was 10 days to devastate the waters of Tampa Bay for months. The nearly “catastrophic failure” of Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility, unleashed millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into local waterways, and new research, published on the anniversary the leak at the facility began, reveals just how devastating it was.