The state will hold two public meetings this week about plans by Florida’s largest phosphate mining company to drill deep injection wells at two plants in Polk County.
Mosaic could eventually use the wells to pump toxic wastewater from the production of fertilizer 8,000 feet underground.
It wants to drill the wells below its former Bonnie Mine near Bartow and its New Wales facility, near Mulberry. The company is trying to determine the makeup of the underground geology…