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Congress asks Modi if he chose 'trade' over country in making truce with Pak, cites US affidavit
US President Donald Trump has spoken 11 times, claiming to have BROKERED the CEASEFIRE between India & Pakistan. PM Modi has not negated it once. Now, DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE on Affidavit is also available --> On 23rd May, 2025, Howard W. Lutnick,…
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Mosaic, Inc. exploring underground wastewater well, raising concerns amongst environmental group
The Brief Mosaic Inc., which owns many of the state's current phosphate stacks, applied for a permit to construct a well in Plant City to inject treated wastewater into the ground. The well would test whether the subsurface is suitable for injecting treated phosphate gypsum wastewater. Opponents of the proposal say there are more effective ways to test the subsurface, but Mosaic does not want to use them because they are more expensive than the proposed well. PLANT CITY, Fla. - Mosaic Inc., which owns many of the state's current phosphate stacks, is exploring injecting treated wastewater into an underground well. If approved, the well would be constructed at their Plant City facility at Paul S. Buchman Highway in Hillsborough County near the Pasco County line. The company is currently applying for a permit to construct the well at a depth of 8,000 ft. below the surface. The other side READ: Florida man breaks essentially every bone in nurse's face during brutal hospital attack: Affidavit The well would test whether the subsurface is suitable for injecting treated phosphate gypsum wastewater. "The only reason this is being proposed is because the water is so polluted that they can't get a permit to discharge it to the surface," said Glenn Compton, the Director of a non-profit environmental organization called ManaSota-88. Compton believes this is a cost-saving proposal by the industry. One of the alternatives, reverse osmosis, is expensive, and he says the public's groundwater will be the expense. "Over time, all wells are going to leak, and whether or not you can detect a leak through monitoring is a hit-and-miss scenario," said Compton. "So, by the time you find out there's something wrong with a well, it's too late to do anything about it, so you end up polluting the groundwater forever cause there's no good way to clean it up." The backstory In 2021, Piney Point in Manatee County had a gypsum stack pond leak over 200 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay and cause massive fish kills. READ: Piney Point settlement reached between environmental groups, state The facility was closed, and a permit was issued for a deep well injection—the first in the state. Compton suspects Mosaic Inc. and companies like them will propose more permits at other phosphate mining sites in the future, and he hopes it will not be approved. READ: 7 charged in $2M theft ring targeting pro athletes' homes, Bucs player among victims: DOJ "This is an industry problem in terms of what they're trying to do with their polluted water.," said Compton. "It should be an industry solution and the public should not have to pay for it with having their groundwater polluted forever." What's next The open house public meeting will be held at 1601 E. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Plant City on Tuesday, March 11, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Representatives of The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Drinking Water and Aquifer Protection Program and Mosaic, Inc. will be available to answer the public's questions. FOX 13 reached out to Mosaic, Inc. for comment but did not receive a response. For more information on the public meeting, click here. The Source FOX 13's Carla Bayron collected the information in this story. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 13 TAMPA: Download the FOX Local app for your smart TV Download FOX Local mobile app: Apple | Android Download the FOX 13 News app for breaking news alerts, latest headlines Download the SkyTower Radar app Sign up for FOX 13's daily newsletter
