Riverview, Florida, isn’t short on sunny headlines or booming growth, but not every chapter in its history is a point of pride.
This list collects 10 real events and developments that locals might rather forget, from a sinkhole that marooned an entire neighborhood to a phosphate spill that reached Tampa Bay.
Somewhere between an unfinished road project and a coal unit that kept burning long past its time, there’s probably a story you remember, and a few you never heard.
Think you know the worst of it? Try counting how many of these episodes you lived through, argued about, or blocked from memory…