http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/us/04phosphates.html?hp

Arguing that the State Environmental Protection Department is far too lax in regulating open-pit phosphate mines, three Gulf Coast counties are spending millions of dollars in an effort to keep the mines from further expansion in a major watershed.

Phillippe Diederich for The New York Times A creek at the site of a planned mine near Ona in Hardee County. Three Gulf Coast counties fear depletion and pollution of water supplies. Officials of Charlotte, Lee and Sarasota Counties along with the regional water authority, worry that the mines, in the central region of Florida, will decrease the quantity and quality of water in the Peace River, a major contributor to the counties’ water supplies.

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