Florida has the greatest accumulation of chemical wastes than any other state. The writer goes further stating, "thanks to the phosphate chemical industry centered in Polk County, has a volume of toxic and radioactive waste products three times as large as any of them." Meaning the more industrialized states, such as Texas and Ohio. Much of the waste was stored behind earthen dikes in thousands of acres of acid waste ponds.  Also, another reason of why Florida had the greatest accumulation of chemical wastes were because of the rupture of a reservoir dike built by the Florida Power and Light Company to store cooling water for an oil-burning generating plant. Interesting stuff.



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