The 77-acre reservoir is said to contain millions of gallons of water with phosphorous and nitrogen from a phosphate plant and the pond where the leak was identified is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste byproduct from the production of fertiliser.
In a statement published online, Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said this situation could have been prevented by refusing to store “dangerous, radioactive waste”.
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