Phosphate mining disaster in Florida
The Bone Valley area, also known as Peace River Watershed, is located in the south-central part of Florida, about 30 miles east of the Tampa Bay area. The Peace River Basin includes parts of today's Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee and Polk counties, where phosphate is mined for agricultural fertilizer production. Florida currently has the largest known phosphate deposit in the United States.
Look from space
Take a closer look at what you can see from Google Maps. Look at the hyperlink:
"https://www.Google.com/maps?ll=27.840787,-81.99678&z=10&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=US&mapclient=embed" You'll see a tract of land about 30 miles east of the Tampa Bay area of the Florida Peninsula. The area is known as the Peace River Basin. Here you will see many very large man-made square or rectangular pits filled with clear fresh water from the broken aquifer system.
These square pits filled with fresh aquifers are distinguished from the beautiful natural blue lakes and ponds of Florida. These giant square pits are artificial craters that are excavated by phosphate cables and excavate a hundred feet of phosphate in the natural water supply of Florida. The water supply takes the form of a groundwater level or "aquifer system". Google Maps clearly shows that the phosphate cable line has been stripped from a phosphate mine only a square mile and scarred in the Midwest of Southwest Florida.
The term "cover" in the phosphate industry is well known, such as lakes, ponds, trees, pastures, grasslands, rivers, natural springs, aquifer systems, watersheds, etc. The traction line is so large and numerous, in just one month of work, thousands of acres of "overburden". These huge pull lines penetrate through a hundred feet and then break and completely remove the Florida natural aquifer system. The infinite water that is no longer contained in the aquifer system can freely fill new phosphate pits in the Midwestern Florida.
At the time of this writing, the phosphate mining industry continues to purchase thousands of square miles of critical wetlands, aquifer systems and watersheds to extract content. All of this happened with permission from Florida and the county because they issued a license for phosphate mines. Unfortunately, these licenses allow the phosphate belt mining industry to enter Florida's rich geographic area, including Florida's unique aquifer system. The aquifer system in Florida has made nature a perfect place for thousands of years [millennial years], many of which are now completely extinct. Is Florida Phosphate more valuable than Florida's watersheds and aquifers? The Florida politics and phosphate belt mining industry is said to be doing every day. [2] The Florida Environmental Protection Agency stated that "...In 2000, $1.13 billion of phosphate fertilizer was exported from Florida and became one of Florida's other major export commodities."
Phosphate pull line in action
[1] The US Geological Society [USGS] believes that tractors can reach hundreds of feet in height and weigh hundreds of tons. The shovel's huge bucket holds 65 cubic yards of cover, which will completely fill 10 standard dump trucks. The dragline excavator removes 100 feet of the earth and is known as the cover phosphate industry. Unfortunately, the first 60 feet of the Earth have the true treasures of Florida.
The cover layer is simply discarded, creating a "phosphate spoil heap." These spoil piles are placed on one side of the so-called "phosphorite pit". The phosphate pit looks similar to the lunar landscape that contrasts with the natural beauty of Florida. The phosphate belt mining industry operates in the southwestern part of Florida 365 days a year. The continual removal of the cover by the Florida phosphate industry can cause irreparable damage to the aquifer system in Florida.
Watershed and aquifer
The Peace River Basin covers an area of 2,300 square miles in the southwestern part of Florida. It contains most of the Florida phosphate mining industry, including the Bone Valley. As mentioned earlier, the phosphate belt mining company uses a cable to remove over 100 feet of topsoil [called the cover layer] and remove thousands of consecutive Florida aquifer systems.
Florida law requires recycling of the surface [60 feet deep]. The acre is an acre of open wetlands, based on type. According to reports, the phosphate industry has opened more than 180,000 acres [728 square kilometers] of land in the Heping River Basin. The phosphate industry is promoting its reclamation projects to bring back wetlands and watersheds. Unfortunately, we only get half the truth.
The whole truth
The aquifer system cannot be easily replaced during the reclamation phase. This fact is not subjective, because humans cannot replace the things that have created nature for thousands of years. The aquifer has disappeared, one of Florida's most amazing natural resources, clear fresh water. The phosphate industry claims they have opened more than 180,000 acres of land. This is only half-truth because it does not include the same amount of planted acreage in the Florida aquifer that will disappear forever. Ironically, phosphate exports are falling.
Drag line job definition
According to WIKIPEDIA, "The large-scale walking shovel excavator runs 24 hours a day in an open pit mine and excavates the original pebble phosphate [called matrix] mixed with clay and sand in the bone valley...".
Is the aquifer system in Florida connected to the sump?
[1] The US Geological Survey believes that areas that are prone to collapse are located underground in the Midwest of Florida. Sinking can be induced by a large amount of water consumption, including phosphate mines. The formation of these sinkholes is based on rock type, formation of aquifers, formation of aquifers and lack of groundwater. This is based on the geological hydraulic pressure generated by the aquifer system. Therefore, in some cases, the water shortage pressure on the surface causes the cover layer to become unstable and collapse due to the destruction of the aquifer formation. Unfortunately, life and property damage can occur when the surface collapses. Again, evidence suggests that the phosphate industry is in the form of a sinkhole caused by the formation of aquifer formation.
The aquifer is a natural hydraulic lift. Filled with water, the aquifer cannot be compressed, so the surface above the aquifer system is stable, which means there is no sinking hole. However, when the aquifer is crushed and removed, the water in these aquifers is now not contained. This large amount of water is filled with very large deep pits, clear and fresh water. Most interestingly, nature now works in a subterranean development with a broken aquifer system and works in a geologically close way.
The basins and aquifers in the Midwestern Florida are gradually extinct due to the destruction of the aquifer system through phosphate belt mining operations. The treasures of Florida's phosphate rock, known as phosphate coatings, are being destroyed by valuable phosphates.
The Florida aquifer system is completely removed with the cover layer using a giant phosphate cable. Remove the valuable phosphate and leave a huge blue hole [visible from Google Maps]. These beautiful large blue holes are tens of thousands of acres of phosphate pits, and the local natural aquifers have been completely destroyed.
Not surprisingly, the Tampa Bay area of Florida is a trap disaster. The area is directly adjacent to the largest phosphate deposit in the continental United States, where the entire southwestern Florida surface is supported by the state's largest aquifer system. This system is called the Flordan water system. Look at the hyperlink:
[1] United States Geological Survey [USGS].
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[2] Florida Environmental Protection Agency.
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