Toxic Piney Point reservoir leaking...
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:28 pm
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High levels of a toxic metallic element were detected in the millions of gallons of seawater that have been gushing into Tampa Bay and Bishop Harbor for more than a week.
Here's where regulators need to step in. Twice in the past 10 years we've had massive spills into Bishops Harbor. It's time that orders come down that nothing be done to those gyp stacks except maintenance to make sure they don't ever rupture or leak again. It was a foolhardy move to dump the dredge material in there.Cadmium is toxic to the marine environment, and can have lethal and sublethal effects on the growth and reproduction of invertebrates such as the blue crab and shrimp, according to Glenn Compton, director of ManaSota-88, a nonprofit public health and environmental organization.
Cadmium does not break down in the environment, so the substance will remain an environmental hazard for many years to come, he said.
The last paragraph on the first page of the original post states.Rik wrote:Twice in the past 10 years we've had massive spills into Bishops Harbor.
According to that the agency really doesn't appear to be that concerned about any major environmental disasters any longer. The spill more than likely was to their benefit. Now they have more room for future dredge material.At its worst point in 2003, about 250 million gallons of Piney Point’s treated wastewater was shipped out and dumped into the Gulf of Mexico, which state officials decided was the only way to avoid a major environmental disaster from overflow. Over six years, the agency released about 1.2 billion gallons of treated wastewater into Bishop Harbor.