Mosaic radioactive
polluted water
is on
WESH 2 News
once
again
As seen on our WESH
2
News channel
Orlando
this morning
Sunday December 4th
2016
By
Alex Villarreal
With
Dave Cocchiarel
Our weather person.
Tomorrow Monday 5th
2016,
will be a meeting
on the Mosaic Well
"Giant sinkhole,"
that dumped millions of gallons of radioactive
polluted water into the Florida Aquifer
I cannot believe
that
(all of the media and every person in ),
are not up in arms about the
Many polluted water
leaks from this company?
This 'Sinkhole' leak
is into
our drinking water people!
Thank you to Channel 2 News!
I was not able to
find
the latest report so
this is the best out on the net!
POLK COUNTY, Fla.
(WFLA) –
Mosaic announced it
will continue, through 2018,
testing wells within
a FOUR mile radius of the sinkhole
that opened at its
Mulberry fertilizer plant.
The testing will be
quarterly in 2017
and
twice a year in
2018.
Testing began in
September,
shortly after Target
8 revealed 215 million gallons of contaminated water drained into the aquifer.
Mosaic claims a
private company it hired,
Environmental
Consulting & Technology, Inc.,
has conducted tests
on 1,200 private wells.
According to the
Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
67 wells showed they
contained contaminant levels that exceed the government’s drinking water
standard.
But the department
states none of those wells was impacted by the water that escaped from the
sinkhole at the plant.
WHAT?
While Mosaic and the
state contend the contaminated water is contained on site,
some neighbors just
don’t have a lot of confidence in the testing that’s going on.
“I have zero
comfort,”
Kristie Simpson
said.
Simpson lives about
five and a half miles west of the sinkhole.
She was told tests
on her well showed the water was safe to drink.
“Then later on my
water started smelling different;
there’s a lot of
black stuff coming out of the pipes.
My neighbors have
that problem too,”
Simpson said.
She claims she
wanted her well tested for arsenic
and
other contaminants and was refused.
Now she buys
purified water and has filters on her showers.
At the root of her
distrust is that
the DEP waited for three weeks,
until after Target 8
broke the story,
to make public the
threat of potential contamination.
“So right there,
there is zero integrity,”
Simpson said.
She said Mosaic’s
plan to test only wells within that four mile radius
for another two
years
in not good enough.
Mosaic contends the
ground water in the area of the sinkhole moves about 500 feet per month.
If that’s the case,
Simpson argues the
wells in the area should be tested
for 20 or 30 years.
Mosaic also stopped
delivering bottled water to wells where tests came back
within Environmental
Protection Agency drinking water standards.
It will continue
delivering water through this month for those wells
in which
contaminants exceed standards.
Fertilizer company
announces new water testing plan in Polk
Saturday, Dec. 3,
2016
The Associated Press
MULBERRY, Fla.
The Mosaic Co. has
announced a new, limited water well testing program in an effort to reassure
Polk and Hillsborough county residents about the safety of their drinking water
following a major environmental accident in September.
The Lakeland Ledger
reports the company
has sent out letters to more than 200 residents near its fertilizer plant with
an offer to test wells every three months next year and twice in 2018.
Mosaic has provided
free bottled water to testing participants until they receive results.
It will continue
providing bottled water for new requests within the 4-mile limit.
The massive sinkhole
at the fertilizer plant should be plugged by spring, months after contaminated
water and waste began flowing into Florida's main drinking water aquifer.
Information from:
The Ledger
(Lakeland, Fla.),