LARGO — The Largo City Commission on Oct. 7 approved two contracts that pave the way for work to begin on the installation of a pair of wastewater deep injection wells. The 6-0 vote awarded a contract ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – As the drainage at Piney Point continues, with millions of gallons of water being pumped out of the reservoir and into Tampa Bay, one engineering solution is picking up ...

Using data from field experiments and modeling of ground faults, researchers at Tufts University have discovered that the practice of subsurface fluid injection used in 'fracking' and wastewater ...

Geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep wastewater injections -- can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields. In a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lake County has joined other Central/North Central Florida governments in escalating a formal opposition to a controversial ...

This week, fertilizer giant The Mosaic Company received approval from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to perform more test injections for drilling wastewater thousands of feet ...

When it comes to preventing discharges from Lake Okeechobee, shouldn't every option be on the table? Or are some options designed to crowd out others? Last week, officials with the South Florida Water ...

The nonprofit Safe Water for Walton organization and many local elected officials oppose Waste Management’s proposed deep injection well that would send hazardous landfill wastewater deep underground.

Miami-Dade County has to find a place to send millions of gallons of wastewater it now pipes into the ocean. Florida Power & Light has been working for years to contain a saltwater plume beneath the ...

In response to the column in the Sun Sentinel titled “$300 million scheme to send polluted water underground is untested and unwise,” I feel compelled to point out several inaccuracies regarding deep ...

Standing atop the phosphogypsum stacks at Piney Point phosphate plant, you look at the settling pond that has caused a lot of trouble in the past, including releasing more than 200 million gallons ...

In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection—not deep wastewater injections—can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil ...