Florida Fertilizer Plant Uses Mobile Water Treatment to Avoid Contamination of Tampa Bay On GlobalSpec

From Siemens Water Technologies

Piney Point is the site of an inactive fertilizer facility, which following a bankruptcy filing by the parent company in 2001, was taken over by the State of Florida to oversee closure. Heavy rainfall and tropical storms in 2001 demanded immediate response to a potential breach of the site's pond dikes and hundreds of millions of gallons of acidic wastewater. The threat of releasing these wastewaters into Tampa Bay prompted the need for remedial service.

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