據(jù)報道，肥料生產商美盛公司發(fā)言人稱，這座磷肥廠設在佛州馬爾伯里（Mulberry），污水池水位于8月27日下降。

 

    這個約100米深天坑外泄的污水，足以裝滿300個奧林匹克運動會的比賽用游泳池。泄露的污水含有磷石膏，這是生產肥料時產生的略具微放射性的副產品。而這些污水已滲入地下蓄水層，這是佛羅里達州主要的飲用水源地，供應數(shù)千萬居民飲水。

 

    部分原文報道如下：

 

    A sinkhole spanning 45 feet （13.7 meters） in diameter opened at a Mosaic Co phosphate fertilizer facility in Florida, leaking 215 million gallons of “slightly radioactive water,” a company spokesman said on Friday.

 

    Mosaic said the monitoring system at its New Wales facility at Mulberry, Florida, showed a decline in water levels on Aug. 27 from the retention pond of a phosphogypsum stack, a hill of hazardous waste. Phosphogypsum is a radioactive byproduct resulting from the production of phosphate.

 

    原文鏈接：

 

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mosaic-sinkhole-idUSKCN11M1QW

 

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3794074/Sinkhole-Florida-fertilizer-plant-leaks-200-million-gallons-radioactive-water.html