Reports of second breach at Florida wastewater reservoir ‘unsubstantiated’

State agency says engineers found no evidence of another breach as workers battle to avert catastrophic flood

Reports of a second breach at a wastewater reservoir in central Florida are unsubstantiated", a state agency said, as workers nonetheless battled to prevent hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water causing a catastrophic flood.

On Monday, officials warned there could be a second leak in the pool at the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant, south of Tampa, which has been gushing wastewater from a breached wall for a week, at a rate of 2m to 3m gallons a day.