This is what happens when things are built for profit or to save money, instead of doing everything that the scientists instruct to prevent stuff like this, at least for significantly longer to happen than today.
@@CollinZaffke That's all you have to say? A stupid joke? Idiots make jokes when it comes to pollution. Idiots vote for a president that tells the global warming is a hoax. When you get sick one day, just do what good old Donald "would love to bang my daughter" Dump told you. Just add a cup of bleach to your beer. It lowers your temperature significantly 🤪🍺
@@nathanmckenzie904 well that's how the rest of the country sees you guys. Get your house in order. Matt Gaetz is one of your representatives. Your governor is a joke. Your senators are all corrupt. Get your house in order.
@@scotthenderson292 The people had nothing to do with this. Almost all of them were not aware this facility even existed. Stop trying to put guilt trips on innocent people
@@scotthenderson292 And the two of you are morons who think crops can grow effectively without fertilizer. And who apparently don't know what salt water does to the ground.
@@quirk8841 I understand how crops grow. But the state of Florida barely regulates this crap. This was avoidable. But the deregulating crazy, profit driven corporate GOP in Florida don't care about people. Only money
Now what I don't understand is if everybody involved knew that this thing was going to give way at some point years and years if not decades ago why was nothing done about it until the brink of a catastrophic failure
@Yami Marik and those corporations that allow this get bailed out when the disaster happens either by public funds or insurance. Both of which are subsidized by the public. This is why we need our governments to do their job. And not be owned by the corporations.
In Md they recycle it back into the public water. Poop to power with electric bacteria is new here too. The solution to pollution is dilution. After a shower my skin itches bad.
This is why you need strong government regulations against these type of waste pits. Coal ash is another waste product that causes huge problems. Hog farm waste ponds are another ecological nightmare.
You must have been asleep for a WHILE! Have you seen Portland, Seattle, San Francisco lately? And sadly it's just the beginning of what's to come! If ppl don't start addressing these issues instead of ignoring it, it will get way worse! Turning a blind eye to a problem doesn't make it go away!
YOU KNOW, the Native Americans never polluted any of there water or lakes, and we call ourselves civilized. Maybe we should give there land back and I, myself and everyone should leave. I think we have done enough damage to this country already.
Did you know the wastewater is the same chemical added directly to municipal water supplies to fluoridate water? It’s hydrofluorosilicic acid and it’s corrosive hazardous waste. When you drink tap water it’s usually laced with the toxic wastewater discussed in the video.
Tampa Bay US Senator Marco Rubio (R) is totally against Biden infrastructure spending. Tampa Bay Governor DeSantis (R) totally against Biden infrastructure spending. Maybe they should rethink their position?
Theres a middle ground between the suffocating regulations of California and the laxness of Florida that allows hazardous waste to be kept in a pond secured by a crumbling wall
California has the 5th largest economy in the world, after the entire U.S., China, Japan, and Germany. In what sense are California regulations suffocating?
@@sadman9639 having a large economy does not equal having acceptable regulations. On top of having high taxes, its many regulations can be hard to accommodate, the costs add up
@@jax5683 I am not disagreeing with you that there is some Golden Mean between extreme regulation and extreme deregulation. You are undoubtedly correct about that. I am questioning your suggestion that California is an extreme case of regulation. The two largest regulatory burdens on businesses in California are from the California Environmental Quality Act (enacted in 1970) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (enacted in 1959). Despite the fact that these comprehensive regulatory schemes have been in place for over 40 years, California's economy has done extremely well during that period, growing to the point where it is the fifth largest economy in the world. Strong regulatory systems do not necessarily have to be suffocating, they can actually be beneficial if managed intelligently. I am not suggesting that California is perfect in this regard, but it appears to be doing pretty well. As for you statement that regulations have costs, again I agree with you entirely. But as we have recently seen in Texas and are now seeing in Florida, deregulation also has its costs and some of them cannot be measured in dollars.
just brought a home in ruskin a few miles away from this. I hope the legislators really address this and the many ponds. around FL that this can happen
This is one reason you can't get rid of EPA regulations and give companies a pass on their responsibility to the environment. They just closed the plant and walked away with no plan or responsibility towards cleaning up and disposing of the contaminated water.
@@fueymanchoo1291 yes it is strange they have not said where they are draining it too. I have questions that I wish they would answer on the news... Perhaps they have alternate holding ponds that can handle parts of it in order to lower the level and make it less dangerous, and allow repairs.
Same thing will happen as always.... build a second retention pond next to this one and fill it with the older toxic water. Fix the old retention pond, rinse, reuse, repeat. Easier to clean the water eco friendly.
Wow EPA opens Gold King Mine and contaminates San Juan River and farms downstream and no one bats an eye. Yet Florida responds immediately to this. Thanks for caring Florida.
What toxins does the water contain? It sounds like it is just agricultural runoff. While not clean water by any means, such runoff is usually not particularly hazardous either. True toxic waste would require complete isolation from water supplies. While a containment wall breach can certainly be a flooding hazard and potentially contaminate other water sources, it isn't like workers near it would be wearing hazmat suits.
not so much a reservoir which I consider to be a natural canyon that is plugged with a single dam, than a man-made above ground pool obviously waiting for a collapse
If only Florida Republicans could have foreseen that toxic waste water is dangerous. Oh well, the President they refuse to acknowledge will come to the rescue. No worries.
My company can clean this water in a matter of a day or two. Cleaning depends on the extra make up of what is in the water. You will not need a Waste repository when we are done. Hazardous metals will possibly be in the parts per trillion. In expensive and if you give of the source we can do away with retention ponds too. Contact numbers?
@@vincentg6613 mostly nitrates and phosphates. The problem is comes from other stuff like paint or glue in it. We can clean any hazardous metal. Did you read my comment closely? I said, we would need to know what is in the water, first. It’s not the fertilizer or metals that will hold us back...it’s other crap like mentioned above. The chemistry is environmental friendly even after we treat it.
Yall slow. F Trump but yall too blinded by identity politics to actually ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH. Covid is a absolute scam only accepted by the most fearful, intellectually lazy and apathetic Pacifist in our society. Hopefully that's not you
@@iaintnokillerbutdontpushme8242 Yeah Trump called it a scam too but then caught the virus and took the vaccine all while downplaying it. Sounds like you wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and slapped you.
Don't feel sorry for them,these big companies just don't care,it's always the common Man suffers.
But I feel very sorry for the people who
Live in the area
LAWYERS ALREADY MAKING TV COMMERCIALS FOR LAWSUITS 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
As they should- the bigger issue for your smaller mind is who is responsible for the toxicity?
Lol, especially the Florida lawyers. Every other billboard in Florida has a picture of a lawyer on it.
@@groundhogday7434 Are they all in the same pose? Any cute ones?
Wow!!
This is what happens when things are built for profit or to save money, instead of doing everything that the scientists instruct to prevent stuff like this, at least for significantly longer to happen than today.
Welcome to USA
That’s why we got a failing D from world civil engineers
Which Engineers? Fukushima? Chernobyl?
@@CollinZaffke U.S. infrastructure gets C-minus from engineers
@@CollinZaffke That's all you have to say? A stupid joke? Idiots make jokes when it comes to pollution. Idiots vote for a president that tells the global warming is a hoax.
When you get sick one day, just do what good old Donald "would love to bang my daughter" Dump told you.
Just add a cup of bleach to your beer. It lowers your temperature significantly 🤪🍺
@@h.g.buddne look how ridiculous you are acting out like that 😂
Imagine how many of these type of disasters are waiting to happen?
I'm guessing those precious poisonous chemical products get better treatment than the infrastructure not used to manage and contain them
You mean the people fattening their pockets right?
But that would require REGULATION! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hasn't it been there for decades? And they, of course, waited until it was too late to bother doing anything about it.
It's Florida. What do you expect. The people in that state should feel a lot of shame. But they don't
@@scotthenderson292 I love in FL and not everyone here is FL man
@@nathanmckenzie904 well that's how the rest of the country sees you guys. Get your house in order. Matt Gaetz is one of your representatives. Your governor is a joke. Your senators are all corrupt. Get your house in order.
Yup!
@@scotthenderson292 The people had nothing to do with this. Almost all of them were not aware this facility even existed. Stop trying to put guilt trips on innocent people
"Lets build a great big pond in a marsh land to hold our toxic waste" 🙄 Who coulda seen this coming?
Now, it’s worse. They are going to pump whatever is left into the lower aquifer. The lower aquifer is your drinking water.
DeSantis and Repugs here in Florida never met a lake,river, stream,or ocean they don’t want contaminated..
After this is over: Well, let's continue to overuse harsh chemicals and fertilizer on our crops
Florida is full of morons that wouldn't mind being poisoned in the name of capitalism
@@scotthenderson292 And the two of you are morons who think crops can grow effectively without fertilizer. And who apparently don't know what salt water does to the ground.
@@quirk8841 I understand how crops grow. But the state of Florida barely regulates this crap. This was avoidable. But the deregulating crazy, profit driven corporate GOP in Florida don't care about people. Only money
@@quirk8841 Crops can grow in manure, and or varieties of compost. You do not need petroleum based fertilizer to grow food.
@@estherc.5559 This isn't petroleum based, it rock phosphate.
Build a retention pool right next to the retention pool. Everybody knows that. I'm a retention engineer.
KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD
More like flooding it down the road 😂🤣🤣😅😆
Now what I don't understand is if everybody involved knew that this thing was going to give way at some point years and years if not decades ago why was nothing done about it until the brink of a catastrophic failure
@Yami Marik and those corporations that allow this get bailed out when the disaster happens either by public funds or insurance. Both of which are subsidized by the public. This is why we need our governments to do their job. And not be owned by the corporations.
We are way overdue for infrastructure and regulation in this country.
Congress has fought infrastructure spending for years for political reasons.
It could be worse! Floridians could be ordered to move to Georgia!
Why are we paying taxes? Look at this crap.
B/c the rich need that 4th lambo...
Why??? How does this happen? Who's the development expert on this one???
That's what I'm wondering? Just looking at it will tell you that it's designed to fail!! Someone had to know that when it was built.
Poor reporting! What makes the water toxic? Is it a chemical plant nearby? Is it radioactive waste? It it agricultural insecticide? How toxic is it?
EXTREMELY. do some research.
You're watching NBC for facts.
You make me tickle.... 😂
They tell you why it's toxic 15 seconds into the video.
Cut the guy off right when he said “We may get sick”
Yeah, it seems they cut him off right when he was going to detail the precise illness that they might face if left untreated... Moron.
they cut his doodlebug off
In Md they recycle it back into the public water. Poop to power with electric bacteria is new here too.
The solution to pollution is dilution. After a shower my skin itches bad.
Ya think?
@Pol Pot It's bad enough having stones thrown at you let alone an ax.
It’s Florida, who cares.
This is why you need strong government regulations against these type of waste pits. Coal ash is another waste product that causes huge problems. Hog farm waste ponds are another ecological nightmare.
Happy Easter to those folks....so sad. I hope it holds.
Thank you Ron Desantis.
This is why we have those pesky regulations.
We just didn’t know...Bahahahaha lies.
Wonder how many years the authorities have been doing nothing about this and now its too late almost. This didn't happen over night
Now we know where the hurricane is goin
Funny not funny tho..
How much did they pay you for your soul? Still have problems with Detroit’s water and what have you showed on that? Or does it not fit your agenda?
I just woke up in a Third World Country!
Nah just a 3rd world state
@@theepiccrafthouse9760 then why is everyone moving here
Another stupid idi0t
You must have been asleep for a WHILE! Have you seen Portland, Seattle, San Francisco lately? And sadly it's just the beginning of what's to come! If ppl don't start addressing these issues instead of ignoring it, it will get way worse! Turning a blind eye to a problem doesn't make it go away!
That tends to happen when you go to sleep in one.
There are also radioactive waste there. It has been under the open sky for 20 years now.
So...all of the toxic water in the containment pond will either be pumped into Tampa Bay...or spill into Tampa Bay. 🤣🤣
Not much worse than the Detroit river trash we drink up here in Michigan.
😆😂😫😭
This guy , that is the Saginaw River you are talking about.
YOU KNOW, the Native Americans never polluted any of there water or lakes, and we call ourselves civilized. Maybe we should give there land back and I, myself and everyone should leave. I think we have done enough damage to this country already.
Are the Florida taxpayers going to pay to fix this or the corporation that owns it? God forbid that the corporation should be held responsible.
Did you know the wastewater is the same chemical added directly to municipal water supplies to fluoridate water? It’s hydrofluorosilicic acid and it’s corrosive hazardous waste. When you drink tap water it’s usually laced with the toxic wastewater discussed in the video.
Tampa Bay US Senator Marco Rubio (R) is totally against Biden infrastructure spending. Tampa Bay Governor DeSantis (R) totally against Biden infrastructure spending. Maybe they should rethink their position?
hope everybody is safe and healthy.
These Florida officials failed the public safety of these voters.
Republican officials.
@@tipsandtricks6071 bs - this has been going with demorat governors as well. This didn't just start having issues now.
Now they care.
Theres a middle ground between the suffocating regulations of California and the laxness of Florida that allows hazardous waste to be kept in a pond secured by a crumbling wall
California has the 5th largest economy in the world, after the entire U.S., China, Japan, and Germany. In what sense are California regulations suffocating?
@@sadman9639 having a large economy does not equal having acceptable regulations. On top of having high taxes, its many regulations can be hard to accommodate, the costs add up
@@jax5683 I am not disagreeing with you that there is some Golden Mean between extreme regulation and extreme deregulation. You are undoubtedly correct about that. I am questioning your suggestion that California is an extreme case of regulation.
The two largest regulatory burdens on businesses in California are from the California Environmental Quality Act (enacted in 1970) and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (enacted in 1959). Despite the fact that these comprehensive regulatory schemes have been in place for over 40 years, California's economy has done extremely well during that period, growing to the point where it is the fifth largest economy in the world. Strong regulatory systems do not necessarily have to be suffocating, they can actually be beneficial if managed intelligently. I am not suggesting that California is perfect in this regard, but it appears to be doing pretty well.
As for you statement that regulations have costs, again I agree with you entirely. But as we have recently seen in Texas and are now seeing in Florida, deregulation also has its costs and some of them cannot be measured in dollars.
"Like I Said" Good thing they included that guy.
just brought a home in ruskin a few miles away from this. I hope the legislators really address this and the many ponds. around FL that this can happen
Maybe our country should have a major public works program to repair and replace failing infrastructure. Any thoughts, America?
hope all goes well
This is one reason you can't get rid of EPA regulations and give companies a pass on their responsibility to the environment. They just closed the plant and walked away with no plan or responsibility towards cleaning up and disposing of the contaminated water.
2020 was just the warm-up to 2021
Dare I say, profits above safety.
Another gift from the deregulated companies for taxpayers.🤬
Absolutely horrible
Florida moment
More like the signs of a failed state
@@briannelson3830 you must be ready to get your corporate government stamp or you've already received it.
@@briannelson3830 This can probably happen anywhere tbh
A 12 Day Maunual Drain or 600M gallons coming at ya🤷🏽♀️
Bless the evacuees.
Question #2. Where are they going to take it to? lol
@@fueymanchoo1291 the ocean lol
@@fueymanchoo1291 ohhhhhhh shiat? And they can't hide it cause we all know! Let's see their "just in case" plan.
@@fueymanchoo1291 yes it is strange they have not said where they are draining it too. I have questions that I wish they would answer on the news... Perhaps they have alternate holding ponds that can handle parts of it in order to lower the level and make it less dangerous, and allow repairs.
Same thing will happen as always.... build a second retention pond next to this one and fill it with the older toxic water. Fix the old retention pond, rinse, reuse, repeat. Easier to clean the water eco friendly.
Goodbye to all the wildlife in the area. Sad
They should have seen this coming and should have done something to prevent this from happening.
Fertilizer byproduct lol 600 million gallons. Also, life tip, don’t live near toxic sewage pools
Wait for it Florida governor will be begging for the feds to bail them out
Where are they planning to put that water then? 🤔
So, why on earth didn’t the authorities do their jobs properly? This situation should never occur.
Don’t worry when it collapses nobody will be held responsible( if someone is )they’ll just get fired same old same old.
This is why I moved from Florida.
Wow
EPA opens Gold King Mine and contaminates San Juan River and farms downstream and no one bats an eye.
Yet Florida responds immediately to this. Thanks for caring Florida.
Florida never fails
12 days to pump 600 million gallons ....that is some huge pumps
What toxins does the water contain? It sounds like it is just agricultural runoff. While not clean water by any means, such runoff is usually not particularly hazardous either. True toxic waste would require complete isolation from water supplies. While a containment wall breach can certainly be a flooding hazard and potentially contaminate other water sources, it isn't like workers near it would be wearing hazmat suits.
@C S I am aware of what is going on now but had to find other sources for that information. The video did a poor job of communicating the situation.
They are only worried about flooding. The water is just "slightly acidic". 🙄
Reportedly "400 million gallons of water from a former phosphate mine."
this is thrilling, families on the verge of chemical destruction, doesn’t happen everyday
When the dude from Robocop gets flooded with toxic waste. WATCH OUT!
This is an example from gouvernante and industries who are not responcible
Why do they always put waste site's near the ocean.
not so much a reservoir which I consider to be a natural canyon that is plugged with a single dam, than a man-made above ground pool obviously waiting for a collapse
This has been going on 17 yrs!!
If only Florida Republicans could have foreseen that toxic waste water is dangerous. Oh well, the President they refuse to acknowledge will come to the rescue. No worries.
If that wall gives way. The land it will cover will be rendered inhabitable for years.
Republican policies at work
Ofc Florida
Why has the DNR approved of such a future danger in this area. Like they cannot predict this danger till it is here.
Yeah...
You got what you wanted you epa hating republicans💯
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My company can clean this water in a matter of a day or two. Cleaning depends on the extra make up of what is in the water. You will not need a Waste repository when we are done. Hazardous metals will possibly be in the parts per trillion. In expensive and if you give of the source we can do away with retention ponds too. Contact numbers?
How expensive? GoFundMe?
You don't even know whats in the water, but you can clean it.....👍
@@vincentg6613 Don't need to know if you just dump it in the ocean. Yes, there's the parts per trillion.
@@vincentg6613 mostly nitrates and phosphates. The problem is comes from other stuff like paint or glue in it. We can clean any hazardous metal. Did you read my comment closely? I said, we would need to know what is in the water, first. It’s not the fertilizer or metals that will hold us back...it’s other crap like mentioned above. The chemistry is environmental friendly even after we treat it.
@@TheBooban inexpensive. We clean mercury out of water at a 20% to 50% savings. No need for Go Fund me, but thanks for asking.
Lots of the US’ infrastructure is reaching its use by date, and is failing. This will happen all over the US in the next 20 years.
Just another reason NOT to move to cRaZY Florida.
Florida, not surprised.
This almost like “ Chernobyl Disaster “ flashback
birds are chirping loud in VA
Congratulations
they deregulated so the people have been made responsible, I hope every body is alright and the culprits are brought to Justice
Perhaps Governor DeSantis would have been on top of this had he not spent so much time kissing orange butt.
DeSantis was never capable of handling any environmental pollution problems.
He's too busy being in front of the camera being the loudest voice in the fake drama for votes and likeability.
Yall slow. F Trump but yall too blinded by identity politics to actually ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH. Covid is a absolute scam only accepted by the most fearful, intellectually lazy and apathetic Pacifist in our society. Hopefully that's not you
Perhaps if your parents weren't brother and sister you wouldn't be so meaningless.
@@iaintnokillerbutdontpushme8242 Yeah Trump called it a scam too but then caught the virus and took the vaccine all while downplaying it. Sounds like you wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and slapped you.
COVID 19 pandemic plus this!!! Hahaha!!!
God, please let the rich people be okay.
This will make a Great Movie
Where's the news on the black guy that assaulted the elderly Asian woman in ny ?? You know the guy that murdered his own mother...?
That's crazy that they let it go on for this long and are now panicking. Fire the whole administration they have no idea what they're doing
So this is what we do with the Florida Everglades? Turn a swamp into a toxic swamp. I think I like the original swamp better.
Hey Mr. Desantis. Proof that Infrastructure is a must. Remember KARMA is real. Ask Trump and Gaetz.
This is Florida Frank’s favorite fishing hole.
Good job FL. 👍
Thank god I got my gun license and a gun for a zombie apocalypse
There goes my summer of fishing... Make them pay 125 percent of damages.
Can’t wait to meet you!!!