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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.
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.
Previously, significant amounts of rock were shipped to China, where it was processed into phosphate fertilizer. The majority of phosphate mining in Florida is done in the Peace River watershed. Phosphate mining companies use draglines to remove surface soils up to 60 feet (18 m) deep over thousands of contiguous acres.
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.
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.
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 ...
The town was founded in 1880 and was platted, after phosphate had been discovered in the region. Its founder had envisioned the town being a major center of commerce. He operated the town's general store and J. E. Riley oversaw the town's mining operations, served as its mayor and served as a local sheriff. The town in its heyday had docks ...
The phosphate deposits in the nearby area were generally mined out by the 1920s, and mining operations shifted to the Hopewell area about 15 miles south of Plant City. In 1913 the Coronet Company purchased the Pembroke Mine facility, located between Fort Meade and Bartow in Polk County , from the French company Compagnie Generale des Phosphates ...