Florida Power Company has a time limit to clean salty pollution under Turkish Point.

A huge plum of super salty water has been lying under the turkey point power plant for years, tenting the surrounding groundwater along the coast of South Miami-Dad County.

Florida Power and Lite, which has operated the twin nuclear reactors of the plant for more than half a century, has been on a 10 -year timeline to clean the pollution. Half the path, now it is clear that FPL is not going to make the limit limit.

Miami-Dead County is now pursuing utility, which is known as the “hypersline plum” built by the huge network of cooling canals created to cool the reactors, but built for decades for decades “Hiperslines” Plum is known as “.

By the time regulators and water managers found, the plum had spread outside the boundaries of the Turkish point. It spread west towards the supply of drinking water of South Florida. Namkeen plum never went close enough to compromise any municipal freshwater wells, but posed a possible continuous risk.

For the last five years, the annual report shows that FPL has found some success in cleaning saltwater, especially in shallow parts of underground freshwater aquifer. In the middle and lower depth, however, the plum boundaries are still far away from the FPL’s property line. In many places, the line is barely connected.

Miami-Dad County wants utility to expand its effort, including dense, salty water with a dozen wells and reducing fresh, less salty water underground, which plums to push it back in the east Is underground to the west of.

Miami-Dad and FPL analyzed more than a dozen options to beef to beef to beef to beef, including the possibility of installing horizontal well Can also reach in. It can work, but not in time to complete the current deadline.

A 2024 advisory report for Miami-Dade found, “However, the FPL assessment of these new options indicates that none of them completely take the Hypersine Plum back to FPL’s property lines by 2028 or 2033 Could. “

For now, the ball is in the court of FPL. Utility will soon provide a plan for county, in which it is planned to find out that it is planning to completely clean the plum-a goal that was argued from the beginning, the original 10 years. Was unrealistic under the deadline of.

Nevertheless, FPL has postponed its progress in stopping the spread of plums and pulling the border back into shallow parts.

FPL spokesman Bill Orlov said in a statement to Miami Herald, “Over a period of six years, Well System has removed more than 36 billion gallons of hypersinene ground water, which is a significant drawback.”

Wilber Mayorga, head of County’s Environment Management Division, said that it may be impossible to guess that the exact year will go completely, even with the best efforts of FPL, but said that Miami-Dad said Is committed to

“At the end of the day, it will have to work. If it does not, I will need another amendment,” he said. “We are working very hard to ensure that the plum has vested and retreated.”

Clean-ups will not be done in 10 years, it is reported that some environmentalists are concerned that the turkey point cooling canal-cum-salt pollution has underlined its lifetime, despite the fact that the nuclear plant was given only right It was to operate federal regulators by the 2050s.

Built in 1972 along the then separate coast of Southern Biscan Bay, Turkish Point is on track to be the oldest operating nuclear plant in the nation, which is approval to run both its reactors by 2052 and 2053, which recently Atomic Regulatory Commission Has been given by

Rachel Silverstein, head of Miami Waterkeeper, challenged licensing again in the court on the issue of ground water pollution, as well as an argument that the government was not considering the risk of increasing sea level when it was to operate Turkey. Decided to allow permission. For another 30 years.

The challenge was successful, at least in part; NRC asked FPL to conduct more research on its environmental risks, before the license final decline is approved once again. But Silverstein said she still worries that regulators are not enough to make FPL to clean the saline plum or prepare for climate change.

“FPL has been relying on this therapeutic plan to push through new permits and licenses for years. But now, in half the way through the 10 -year timeline, we know that it is not going to meet its goals. . We want to know how this pollution is going to address, especially before NRC increases our license to operate by 2052, “he said.

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