Piney Point phosphate plant

Piney Point phosphate plant
BuiltSeptember 1966 (1966-09)
Operated
  • Prosphate mining:
  • September 1966 (1966-09)–1999 (1999)
LocationManatee County, Florida
Coordinates27°37′45″N 82°31′30″W / 27.62917°N 82.52500°W / 27.62917; -82.52500
IndustryFertilizer plant
Area676 acres (274 ha)
Address
  • 13300 Scale Avenue
  • Palmetto, Florida 34221
Owner(s)HRK Holdings

Piney Point phosphate plant is an industrial site in Manatee County, Florida and the location of a former fertilizer plant. The land is currently owned by HRK Holdings, which leases portions of the land to industrial tenants under the name Eastport.

In March 2021, a dam to a reservoir storing wastewater from phosphate tailings within a phosphogypsum stack generated by the plant's operations began to fail, prompting evacuations on April 1 followed by the governor of Florida issuing a state of emergency on April 3. Contaminated toxic water was discharged into Tampa Bay in an effort to prevent the reservoir's collapse.

Although ordered to be closed in August 2021, the plant is not expected to close until at least 2025.

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