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Pretty turn out of florida were tonight there is a frantic effort to prevent a catastrophic

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flood from a waste water pond near tampa hundreds have been evacuated

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crews are pumping out millions of gallons of toxic water

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truly pressure at the pond...janet

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...has late word on a new setback tonight a potential secondly

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the containment...still hold almost three hundred million gallons of toxic water from

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alone abandon phosphate plant approximately two am...identified

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a signature that could indicate effective breach at the engineering team evacuated the

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...a collapse of the aging reservoir consider twenty foot wall of wastewater

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...nearby areas that's why thirty million gallons

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of contaminated water being pumped every twenty four hours into tampa bay another

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water ways raising fears it could kill fish and wildlife

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some three hundred homes and a nearby prison already under evacuation

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...is such a breach of trust...you know,

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for us in the community melissa fits simmons lives on the border of

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the evacuation zone and is taking no chances thankfully play

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...that live a couple miles down the road so we kind of brought everything

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...that we need to and that are just preparing, you know,

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has for the wires ...the production used primarily in fertilizer is a...it does is

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in florida what environmentalists call it cradle to grave

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pollutants from mining to the wastewater left behind all over florida

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...and even all over the country environmental activist

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looks armstrong says the plants and containment plants are often even low-income

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...the people don't have a lot of choices

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...I'm going to sell my house and move out that might not be an option?

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tonight a bigger issue remains what to do with the waste water from phosphate plants

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like this one as these aerial show there are some two dozen retention pond

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just like tiny point all across florida

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...about a billion gallons of toxic

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watering them and right now there is no real plan was how to deal with them

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...stunning channel, channel and thank you.