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While it consists largely of abandoned phosphate pits, it has a large area of undisturbed scrub habitat. Natural habitats within the site include sand pine scrub, xeric oak scrub, pine flatwoods, hardwood hammock, wet prairie, freshwater marsh, cypress swamp, and hardwood swamp. During the 1960s (and prior) the land was pitted with phosphate mines.
Phosphate fertilizer processing plant -- Nichols, Florida. The Bone Valley is a region of central Florida, encompassing portions of present-day Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Polk counties, in which phosphate is mined for use in the production of agricultural fertilizer.
A phosphogypsum stack located in nearby Fort Meade, Florida, the Piney Point stack encloses wastewater. Borden Chemical opened an industrial plant on the site in September 1966 to process phosphate, a key ingredient in fertilizer. [1] By 1970, it had been discovered that the plant was dumping waste into Bishop Harbor, resulting in fish kills.
Alafia River State Park is a Florida State Park, located near Picnic in Hillsborough County in central Florida, 17 miles southeast of Tampa on County Road 39.Even before it became a park, the area, and particularly Hurrah Lake, was the center of leisure activities since the early 1880s.
Pond in Saddle Creek Park, Polk County, Florida. Saddle Creek Park is a 740 acre park located between Winter Haven and Lakeland in Polk County, Florida [1] It is on the site of three main lakes and a great many other abandoned phosphate pits, providing a large area of fishable shoreline. [2] Over 175 species of birds have been recorded at the ...
Brewster is a ghost town in southwest Polk County, Florida, United States, ten miles south of Mulberry. It is at an elevation of 143 feet above sea level and has been uninhabited since the early 1960s. The population is 3, according to the 2010 Census. The village of Brewster was founded in 1910 and for decades flourished from phosphate mining.
Satellite imagery of South Florida on Sept. 25 and Sept. 30, before and after Hurricane Ian struck the Florida Peninsula. The photos show how thick clouds of sediment seeped into the Gulf of ...
Liverpool was a phosphate mining town in Florida and was named for its founder, John Cross, from Liverpool, England.Liverpool was most likely chosen because it was on the Peace River, which provided a way that mined phosphate could be transported to Charlotte Harbor.