Lake Tapps Reservoir Water Rights and Supply Project
From: Wynne Brown >
Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 11:20?AM
Subject: Please avoid a terrible mistake: Copper World Project; Aquifer Protection Permit No. 513690, LTF 90620
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I appreciate the chance to submit comments on the ...↓Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit.
Given the very recent evidence of jaguar activity in the affected area, I’m extremely concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Again, many thanks for the opportunity to provide feedback!
Sincerely,
Wynne Brown
AZ 85712-3453↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
kathy mattox
CO 80501-2453↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. It is time to put the interests of the environment above that of a mining company. I’m concerned that the plan desi...↓gn proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine. it is time for mining companies to spend time and money on protecting the environment they are raping.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
Water is life, how is it intelligent to allow any water to be toxically fowled for industrial profit?
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Please make public and environmental health your priority!!
Sincerely,
Moonshadow Moonshadow
AZ 85042-5372↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Katie Puckett
AZ 86001-6334↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Aria Young
AZ 85257-3136↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
James Notestine
AZ 85712-2177↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
We need to be aware of the environmental costs with more open pit mining in critical habitats. We need to allow some wilderness remain intact. These choices will be felt by our children and generations to come. Let’s not be...↓ shortsighted.
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
BARBARA J GALLAGHER
AZ 85614-2316↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment, and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That is unacceptable. Therefore, I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protect the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP, which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements, and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Ault
AZ 85755-1913↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
David Nelson
AZ 85715-5016↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Marilee Russo
AZ 85935-8543↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Joan Scurran
AZ 85750-7047↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
BRYE MYLES
AZ 85143-4874↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Terry Tedesco
AZ 85718-7307↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Adarsh Ayyar
AZ 85253-5328↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Beverly Janowitz-Price
AZ 85014-5620↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Stacy Ziems
AZ 85710-5807↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ryan Holly
FL 33179↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mike Handforth
AZ 86018-0351↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Maria Nasif
AZ 85718-2417↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mary Wellington
AZ 85704-4726↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
THERE IS NO REASON TO APPROVE THIS VAST POLLUTION!!!
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minera...↓ls’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Edward Sample
AZ 85331-8881↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Aleta Bloch
AZ 85749-9610↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Charry Stover
AZ 85728-4958↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Aggie Shapiro
AZ 85020-4701↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Abigail Villodas
AZ 85331-6000↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jane Gibson
NE 68001↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Richard Skinner
AZ 85705-2184↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Sean Casey
AZ 85142-3784↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Phillip Mello
AZ 85226-6210↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
robin bowyer
AZ 85745-2855↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Waltasti
AZ 85138-3299↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
* my personal perspective is that mankind cannot continue to waste and destroy the natural world any further. Once the natural world is all gone, we are next, and our children and grandchildren will suffer *
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
CHARLOTTE MURPHY
AZ 85021-2904↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Peggy Faucher
AZ 85624-6147↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mark Cederholm
AZ 86001-7213↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ruth Eckert
AZ 85254-3237↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jon Crawford
AZ 85282-7601↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Christine Hutchens
AZ 85745-1892↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Tycho Rowe
AZ 85012-1844↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Weng Mike
AZ 85028-2539↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Sharon LaLond
AZ 85704-6464↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Danyelle Jorgensen
AZ 86320↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Karen Perkins
AZ 85755-5828↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Barbara Reynolds
AZ 85546-9304↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Joan Castle
AZ 86336-7433↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Katie Desmond
AZ 85716-3622↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
AZ 85754-5699↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Sinclair
AZ 85650-5371↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
BARBARA LEE
AZ 85086-2262↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection I am not against mining for all of us use mstetials that come from mines but I am.oppsed to unrestricted mining operations. The environmental costs of mini g are huge. It is foolish to assume that all danage done by mining is fixable or undertaken by mining companies. I lived for ryears in a community that suffered the consequences of not holding a mining operation accountable for environmental issues. Before any permit is issued the entire mining operation must be scrutinized and examined and clear environmental harmes addressed so that accountability is clearly stated and understood.
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Christiane Freer-Parsons
AZ 85250-6174↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
John Hitchcock
AZ 85745-9308↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
BASICALLY, WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO MINING IN AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE JAGUARS, WHICH ARE ENDANGERED, AND ESPECIALLY NOT BY A FOREIGN COMPANY WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT CLEAN UP AFTER ITSELF AND OVER WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL. FURTHERMORE, THE LARGE SCALE USE OF WATER NEEDED FOR SLURRYING AND OTHER THINGS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN AN AREA (AND STATE) WHERE WATER IS ALREADY AT A PREMIUM AND DIMINISHING FAST. THANK YOU.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mary N. Swersey
AZ 86001-5413↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Roland Romo
AZ 85745-1958↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Rebekah Duran
AZ 85705-2866↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Tricia JASINSKI
AZ 85282-6170↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Carol MASUDA
AZ 85716-3215↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Patricia Coghlan
AZ 85748-8227↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Tina Johnson
AZ 85396-7202↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Carrie Deleon
AZ 85719-6631↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Richard Anderson
AZ 85623-0060↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Norman Andreassen
AZ 86441-0051↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Brenda Pumphrey
AZ 85142-6284↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m firmly and adamantly opposed to this moining plan. I amconcerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minera...↓ls’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Scott Sinclair
AZ 85650-5371↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Loraine Zagula
AZ 85719-2721↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Edward Cohen
AZ 85254-2585↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Michael Nelson
AZ 85643-3675↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Taína Diaz-Reyes
AZ 85282-4810↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Melissa O'Rourke
AZ 85225-7748↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Caitlin Herritt
AZ 85138-2266↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ronald Guirreri
AZ 85614-5952↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Shirley Christensen
AZ 85743-7607↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Chris Bihler
AZ 85032-5271↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Linda Smith
AZ 85205-3500↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested. I’m extremely concerned about the disastrous environmental impact that is all but certain with this proposal.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
SAELON RENKES
AZ 85614-2048↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
sherrri hodges
AZ 85035-3804↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Johanna Jones
AZ 85719-2947↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. This mine will use 10,000 gallons of water a day (more than the City of Tucson.) They will deplete the water table...↓ and have minimal requirements to monitor polluting the water table. Pima County has over 1,000,000 residents who are looking at having to drink waste water while this mine is using our precious ground water. This company is a bad actor who has left multiple abandoned mines that weren't cleaned up. Why do you want this for Southern Arizona, right next to a big population base?
I have the feeling that ADEQ represents the mine and is not protecting Arizona citizens. Former Gov. Ducey attempted to gut the clean water standards and other items to facilitate the Rosemont Mine. The federal government wasn't going to give them a water permit. I attended many of the ADEQ meetings and was told that there isn't much that can be done if the ground water is polluted. Why are you giving a Canadian mining company carte blanche to do whatever they want?
I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mary Jo Sheldon-DiVito
AZ 85718-1268↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Barbara Wood
AZ 86305-8843↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection
Proposal. The dangers of Hudbay’s overreach are grave, not because of malicious intent, but because it’s highest value is ...↓production and profit. We won’t get a do over on this. I believe your agency and we citizens can do more to prevent environmental disaster before it’s too late.
I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024. Thank you for listening and acting!
Sincerely,
Norene Smith
AZ 85718-2000↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Dona LaSchiava
AZ 85614-2729↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mindy Blaski
AZ 85750-5960↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Paula Borchardt
AZ 85718-4851↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Richard Romeo
AZ 85615-8876↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Robert Osborne
AZ 85901-3390↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Sgroi
AZ 85308-6346↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Steven Savitch
AZ 85614-4321↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
David Gerkin
AZ 85022-4809↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Peter Psckard
AZ 85750-0885↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Adalberto M. Araiza
AZ 85608-0496↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Crystal Rector
AZ 85392-5925↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Anna-Leigh Andresen
AZ 85622-8246↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Sherri Hodges
AZ 85051-8117↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jim Brooker
AZ 85719-1351↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Geoff Drumm
AZ 86323↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Veronica Iordanova
AZ 85283-2300↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Carol Vleck
AZ 85614-6306↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
John Nowlin
AZ 85254-7506↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
kathy grieves
AZ 85383-3160↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Dennis Hart
AZ 85742-9692↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
The Santa Rita Mountains are unique and irreplaceable. Certainly not a location that can withstand the impact of proposed mining ventures. Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aqui...↓fer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
David Chorlton
AZ 85044-1519↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jeannette Hanby
AZ 85745-8978↓
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