Current Events > Florida declares state of emergency after radioactive wastewater leak

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Lebronwon 04/04/21 11:34:53 AM #1:	https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56629013 A state of emergency has been declared in Florida after a leak from a large pond of toxic wastewater in Tampa Bay. More than 300 homes in the area have been ordered to be evacuated, and a motorway near the Piney Point reservoir has been closed off. Residents were sent a text alert telling them to leave home immediately. Officials said the 77-acre (31-hectare) reservoir holds millions of gallons of water containing phosphorous and nitrogen from an old phosphate plant. The pond where the leak was found is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser. The water contains small amounts of naturally occurring radium and uranium, and the stacks can also release radon gas. Attempts to repair the leak late on Friday, by plugging the hole with rocks and other materials, were unsuccessful. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared the state of emergency on Saturday. "We are talking about the potential of about 600 million gallons (2.3 billion litres) within a matter of seconds and minutes, leaving that retention pool and going around the surrounding area," he said. Thousands of gallons per minute is currently being pumped out of the reservoir now to bring the volume of water down, while other workers have been charting the path to control the flow of the water. By declaring a state of emergency, funds can be released to send more pumps and cranes to the area. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 <cite>Lebronwon posted [p:952455282] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56629013 A state of emergency has been declared in Florida after a leak from a large pond of toxic wastewater in Tampa Bay. More than 300 homes in the area have been ordered to be evacuated, and a motorway near the Piney Point reservoir has been closed off. Residents were sent a text alert telling them to leave home immediately. Officials said the 77-acre (31-hectare) reservoir holds millions of gallons of water containing phosphorous and nitrogen from an old phosphate plant. The pond where the leak was found is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser. The water contains small amounts of naturally occurring radium and uranium, and the stacks can also release radon gas. Attempts to repair the leak late on Friday, by plugging the hole with rocks and other materials, were unsuccessful. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared the state of emergency on Saturday. "We are talking about the potential of about 600 million gallons (2.3 billion litres) within a matter of seconds and minutes, leaving that retention pool and going around the surrounding area," he said. Thousands of gallons per minute is currently being pumped out of the reservoir now to bring the volume of water down, while other workers have been charting the path to control the flow of the water. By declaring a state of emergency, funds can be released to send more pumps and cranes to the area. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ncsonic 04/04/21 11:36:13 AM #2:	Watch there's going to be growing 30-40 foot aligators now from Florida. Florida is fucked up. --- WIRED https://www.youtube.com/user/wired <cite>ncsonic posted [p:952455322] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Watch there's going to be growing 30-40 foot aligators now from Florida. Florida is fucked up. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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BudDupree48 04/04/21 11:42:08 AM #5:	Oh my god --- BANG BANG STEELER GANG <cite>BudDupree48 posted [p:952455466] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Oh my god </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
doomcrusader 04/04/21 11:44:27 AM #6:	How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste? --- https://imgur.com/tqMGw https://imgur.com/IHbuM <cite>doomcrusader posted [p:952455529] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 04/04/21 11:47:50 AM #7:	doomcrusader posted... How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste? Because fertilizer itself is somewhat radioactive due to the source materials used --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/S1m3po4 https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:952455645] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>doomcrusader posted...</cite> <quote>How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste? </quote> Because fertilizer itself is somewhat radioactive due to the source materials used </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Weezy_Tha_Don 04/04/21 11:48:43 AM #8:	wow --- https://imgur.com/hwZyGuA - courtesy of the homie United_World I speak my mind, cause biting my tongue hurts. <cite>Weezy_Tha_Don posted [p:952455674] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>wow </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
uwnim 04/04/21 11:49:35 AM #9:	doomcrusader posted... How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste? The rocks they use to make it contain some radioactive elements and those end up in the waste product. --- I want a pet Lavos Spawn. [Order of the Cetaceans: Phocoena dioptrica] <cite>uwnim posted [p:952455696] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>doomcrusader posted... </cite> <quote>How does manufacturing fertilizer cause radioactive waste?</quote>The rocks they use to make it contain some radioactive elements and those end up in the waste product. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
BloodMoon7 04/04/21 11:51:18 AM #10:	Florida why are you like this WHY --- Surrender yourself to the darkness. A hero's rightful place is underneath my boot, stomped flat like the insignificant worms they are. <cite>BloodMoon7 posted [p:952455745] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Florida why are you like this WHY </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Xenozoa425 04/04/21 11:51:19 AM #11:	Lebronwon posted... waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser And people think it's a political issue lol --- You can't hide from me, child. Baby, you can't run. So come on, and take a ride on the rays of the sun. <cite>Xenozoa425 posted [p:952455746] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Lebronwon posted... </cite> <quote>waste product from the manufacture of fertiliser</quote>And people think it's a political issue lol </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Scorsese2002 04/04/21 1:53:37 PM #12:	https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9435173/Florida-officials-warn-catastrophic-flooding-storage-reservoir-collapses.html --- https://www.twitch.tv/dtake86 <cite>Scorsese2002 posted [p:952459490] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9435173/Florida-officials-warn-catastrophic-flooding-storage-reservoir-collapses.html</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
FortuneCookie 04/04/21 1:58:25 PM #13:	You folks don't need to be worryin' about a little spill like this, I guarantee! <cite>FortuneCookie posted [p:952459616] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote> You folks don't need to be worryin' about a little spill like this, I guarantee! </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
CM_Ponch 04/04/21 2:03:45 PM #14:	--- SW-8316-3213-4720 <cite>CM_Ponch posted [p:952459787] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MaxEffingBemis 04/04/21 2:04:13 PM #15:	I live here and this is the first Im hearing about this --- She took pity on me, horizontally, but most likely because of my band <cite>MaxEffingBemis posted [p:952459804] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>I live here and this is the first Im hearing about this </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kingdrake2 04/04/21 2:05:35 PM #16:	MaxEffingBemis posted... I live here and this is the first Im hearing about this he gotta evacuate if he's in the path of the spill. --- Explorers In The Further Regions Of Experience, demons to some, Angels To Others: Pinhead <cite>kingdrake2 posted [p:952459842] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>MaxEffingBemis posted...</cite> <quote>I live here and this is the first Im hearing about this </quote> he gotta evacuate if he's in the path of the spill.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Xenozoa425 04/04/21 2:06:11 PM #17:	CM_Ponch posted... What does his racist evolution theory have to do with anything --- You can't hide from me, child. Baby, you can't run. So come on, and take a ride on the rays of the sun. <cite>Xenozoa425 posted [p:952459859] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>CM_Ponch posted... </cite> <quote></quote>What does his racist evolution theory have to do with anything </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ZevLoveDOOM 04/04/21 2:06:47 PM #18:	goddammit Florida, can you try to be less Florida for a whole fucking day?? <cite>ZevLoveDOOM posted [p:952459875] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>goddammit Florida, can you try to be less Florida for a whole fucking day?? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Irony 04/04/21 2:22:45 PM #19:	Idc --- I am Mogar, God of Irony and The Devourer of Topics. <cite>Irony posted [p:952460342] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Idc </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Philoktetes 04/04/21 2:32:15 PM #20:	can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis this could happen to anyone --- I don't think so, Tim. ~~ Pizza Crew ~~ <cite>Philoktetes posted [p:952460622] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis this could happen to anyone</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Scorsese2002 04/04/21 2:36:31 PM #21:	Philoktetes posted... can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis this could happen to anyone Happened here in Michigan last year.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenville_Dam --- https://www.twitch.tv/dtake86 <cite>Scorsese2002 posted [p:952460720] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Philoktetes posted...</cite> <quote>can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis this could happen to anyone</quote> Happened here in Michigan last year.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenville_Dam</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
V-E-G-Y- 04/04/21 2:37:44 PM #22:	Teenage mutan ninja turtles when --- https://imgur.com/L6MQGtI https://imgur.com/HAj1Ocp https://imgur.com/Op6gMTg https://imgur.com/hNkY6mv <cite>V-E-G-Y- posted [p:952460745] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Teenage mutan ninja turtles when</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Irony 04/04/21 2:42:34 PM #23:	Philoktetes posted... can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis No --- I am Mogar, God of Irony and The Devourer of Topics. <cite>Irony posted [p:952460889] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Philoktetes posted... </cite> <quote>can CE not even lay off the Floridaphobia for one hecking day while they're experiencing a crisis</quote>No </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GallisOTK 04/04/21 2:49:14 PM #24:	Even God doesn't want to see Shane McMahon vs. Braun Strowman at Wrestlemania --- https://imgur.com/sZ6drsj <cite>GallisOTK posted [p:952461049] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Even God doesn't want to see Shane McMahon vs. Braun Strowman at Wrestlemania</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
cjsdowg 04/04/21 2:49:40 PM #25:	Scientist lying about radioactivity. Don't fall victim to it, are AMERICANS. Hazmat suits equal slavery. -FL Man. --- Bender: Well, everybody, I just saved a turtle. What have you done with your lives? <cite>cjsdowg posted [p:952461064] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Scientist lying about radioactivity. Don't fall victim to it, are AMERICANS. Hazmat suits equal slavery. -FL Man. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Philoktetes 04/04/21 2:50:18 PM #26:	cjsdowg posted... Scientist lying about radioactivity. Don't fall victim to it, are AMERICANS. Hazmat suits equal slavery. -FL Man. ^this is a straw man --- I don't think so, Tim. ~~ Pizza Crew ~~ <cite>Philoktetes posted [p:952461081] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>cjsdowg posted...</cite> <quote>Scientist lying about radioactivity. Don't fall victim to it, are AMERICANS. Hazmat suits equal slavery. -FL Man. </quote> ^this is a straw man</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 04/04/21 2:54:55 PM #27:	Scorsese2002 posted... Happened here in Michigan last year.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenville_Dam That's not even the same thing. --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/S1m3po4 https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:952461207] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Scorsese2002 posted...</cite> <quote> Happened here in Michigan last year.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenville_Dam</quote> That's not even the same thing.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Scorsese2002 04/04/21 2:56:50 PM #28:	Bio1590 posted... That's not even the same thing. Structural failure causing flooding, minus the radiation --- https://www.twitch.tv/dtake86 <cite>Scorsese2002 posted [p:952461267] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Bio1590 posted...</cite> <quote> That's not even the same thing.</quote> Structural failure causing flooding, minus the radiation</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 04/04/21 3:11:47 PM #29:	Scorsese2002 posted... Structural failure causing flooding, minus the radiation One was (is?) literally a dam on a river that was breached due to a massive influx of water from heavy rains and one is a bunch of old refuse ponds for holding wastewater from a plant. If you want to simplify it down that far, then sure, but they aren't the same thing. --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/S1m3po4 https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:952461663] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Scorsese2002 posted...</cite> <quote> Structural failure causing flooding, minus the radiation</quote> One was (is?) literally a dam on a river that was breached due to a massive influx of water from heavy rains and one is a bunch of old refuse ponds for holding wastewater from a plant. If you want to simplify it down that far, then sure, but they aren't the same thing.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Suikoden420 04/04/21 4:10:23 PM #30:	Stories like these should not happen. Its a structural failure that could have been prevented. Often why these things occur is that inspections did not take place, or the recommendations were ignored. --- Come Nerevar, come and look upon the heart, Upon the heart Ooh! <cite>Suikoden420 posted [p:952463334] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Stories like these should not happen. Its a structural failure that could have been prevented. Often why these things occur is that inspections did not take place, or the recommendations were ignored. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
What_ 04/04/21 4:14:12 PM #31:	Fucking Florida <cite>What_ posted [p:952463428] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Fucking Florida </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DenverLastDino 04/04/21 4:16:37 PM #32:	Ex-Kefiroth posted... I propose we send DeSantis in to dive the pond and plug the leak. How about we avoid sacrificing a potential future president? --- Your friend ...and a whole lot more ;-) <cite>DenverLastDino posted [p:952463495] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Ex-Kefiroth posted...</cite> <quote>I propose we send DeSantis in to dive the pond and plug the leak.</quote> How about we avoid sacrificing a potential future president?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Dark_SilverX 04/04/21 4:28:06 PM #33:	CM_Ponch posted... --- Cancelation makes my nipples hard. don't compare games to feces -- if you've an opinion worth mentioning, do so civilly <cite>Dark_SilverX posted [p:952463786] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>CM_Ponch posted... </cite> <quote></quote> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Bio1590 04/04/21 4:28:22 PM #34:	Shut the fuck up RealDill --- https://imgur.com/bbRWLI8 https://imgur.com/A0BErSV https://imgur.com/S1m3po4 https://imgur.com/7fCcfko <cite>Bio1590 posted [p:952463795] in Florida de... [t:79386929]...</cite> <quote>Shut the fuck up RealDill</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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