Florida faces 'imminent' pollution catastrophe from phosphate mine pond

• Millions of gallons of toxic wastewater pumped into Tampa Bay
• Governor DeSantis at scene as 20ft wall of water' is feared

Work crews were pumping millions of gallons of contaminated wastewater into an ecologically sensitive Florida bay on Sunday, as they tried to prevent the imminent" collapse of a storage reservoir at an old phosphate mine.

Officials in Manatee county extended an evacuation zone overnight and warned that up to 340m gallons could engulf the area in a 20ft wall of water" if they could not repair the breach at the Piney Point reservoir in the Tampa Bay area, north of Bradenton.