Reply #3: Oh, yes, I remember the toxic stuff and the horrible taste to the water we had to drink [View All]

[csziggy]

I also remember when the water tables were much higher in Central Florida than they are now. I left Polk County about 1970 - way before much of the abuses of the industry were admitted to the public. Much of the phosphate has been mined out in Polk so now the industry is putting pressure on Manatee, Hardee and some of the other counties that still have some phosphate bearing tracts. Hopefully, they will be able to fight it but I don't know if they can succeed.

Thanks - I never realize how much I remember about the phosphate business until something like this comes up. But when you grow up with your father living it every day, you absorb a lot of info.