Lake Tapps Reservoir Water Rights and Supply Project
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,
Dawn Dyer
AZ 86005-3701↓
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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 E Casale
AZ 85395-8800↓
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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,
Sara Birkemeier
AZ 85014-2421↓
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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,
Ioana Datcu
AZ 85625-4035↓
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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,
Elisa Rios
AZ 86326-4557↓
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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 Holm
AZ 85375-2766↓
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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,
Gilbert Flores
AZ 85029-3846↓
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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,
Roberta Craig
AZ 85132-9623↓
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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,
Judith Schnitzel
AZ 85743-5304↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
I am a resident of Tucson, Arizona and use the Santa Rita Mountains recreationally. on a regular basis. These mountains are among the most biodiverse mountain ranges in North America. Also, among the most beautiful! I oppose any proposal that even have a slight chance of spoiling this gem in my own backyard!
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,
Gregory Mishaga
AZ 85712-2905↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
SUSAN PRINCE
CA 95701-0536↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. We are concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is sign...↓ificantly 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 we 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, we request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and we 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,
Rebecca Summer PhD
AZ 85646↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Cheryl Toth
AZ 85716-5507↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
keith kleber
AZ 85743-8787↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Kathleen Erickson
AZ 85743-8330↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Robert Eastham
AZ 86401-4856↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Alexa Morgan
AZ 85382-2236↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Theresa Martin
AZ 85019-1702↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Lois Jordan
AZ 85749-9639↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Loraine Zagula
AZ 85719-2721↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
sherrri hodges
AZ 85035-3804↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Roland Romo
AZ 85745-1958↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Steven Savitch
AZ 85614-4321↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
John Nowlin
AZ 85254-7506↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Catherine Gorman
AZ 85192-9771↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Danyelle Jorgensen
AZ 86320↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Wendy Wiener
AZ 85119-3739↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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 Stovall
AZ 85750-7224↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Catherine Cline
AZ 85395-8759↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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. Water sources here in the desert are precious and we must put into effect every precaution available to ensure that our water supply is not contaminated with poisonous pollutants. Also, the operations of Hudbay Minerals in the Santa Ritas need to be monitored by an outside entity. We cannot rely on Hudbay Minerals to monitor its own activities.
Sincerely,
Monica Gray
AZ 85739-1435↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Arline Fass
AZ 85614-4015↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Jewell Batway
AZ 85120-4318↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Marielle Marne
AZ 85086-7508↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Margery Ellison
AZ 85395-8751↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Lori Ann Burd
AZ 85701-2123↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Michael Earl
AZ 86001-1119↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Stephan Donovan
AZ 85737-3451↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Joseph Gebler
AZ 85614-4165↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Beth McRae
AZ 85253-2046↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Nan Wollman
AZ 85716-5709↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Michelle Klawiter
AZ 85249-2110↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
John Soine
AZ 85374-6118↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Felipe O. Torre
AZ 85340-4167↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Bonnie Grummell
AZ 85054-5814↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
William Thornton
AZ 85716-2403↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
STOP THE POISONING. ARIZONA PEST CONTROL UNLAWFULLY PLACED MULTIPLE DEADLY ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDE RODENT TRAPS IN OUR WILDLIFE CORRIDOR ENDANGERING CHILDREN PETS AND WILDLIFE. I FOUND A YOUN...↓G QUAIL WITH SEVERE NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE NEAR TO WHERE THEY PLACED THEIR POISON TRAPS WITHOUT PERMISSION OR AUTHORIZATION. STOP THIS KILLING OF NATIVE CREATURES. THEY ARE THE ANCESTORS OF THE TOHONO O'ODHAM NATION. YOU ARE FAILING US
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,
Dr. Amy Eisenberg
AZ 85737-3448↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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 Krajewski
AZ 85023-5276↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Joyce Libdan
AZ 85635-0011↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Susan Brandes
AZ 85716-6001↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Fred Anderson
AZ 85716-1800↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Charles McDonald
AZ 85750-2564↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit.
As a 7-decade resident of the state, I’m concerned that the plan design proposed i...↓n 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.
6. Allowing Hudbay Minerals to self-regulate is a recipe for lack of acceptable oversight. Look no farther than Boeing Aircraft to see the results of self regulation.
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,
HOWARD FREDERICK
AZ 85652-1890↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Carla Morin
AZ 85382-5197↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Linda Pawloski
AZ 85345-8919↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Patricia Dell
AZ 86315-0006↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Renee Rule
AZ 85258-4763↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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.
Why must we keep doing this vigilance? Does the health of Arizonans and our habitat really matter less each time property changes hands? Do not waste time-- protect and project a plan that guarantees health of our natural system-- it is all we have and share.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Burgess
AZ 85718-6028↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Anne Olivares
AZ 85022-3425↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m terrified that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is signifi...↓cantly 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.
Are you paying ANY attention?
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. It could be tantamount to murder and degradation of life & well being in the near & distant future.
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.
Be sure the FOX is not guarding the Henhouse at the least!
Sincerely,
P Frederick
AZ 85743-9232↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Thomas Wendel
AZ 86336-9797↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Bill Christie
AZ 85719-4725↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Diane Nowak
AZ 86326-3779↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Mark Hayduke Grenard
AZ 85032-7562↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Kevin Petty
AZ 85282-6207↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Debra Wright
AZ 85603-0132↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Kenneth Fischer
AZ 85742-8662↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
C Pio
AZ 86327-0120↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Veronica Heron
AZ 85018-8049↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Lucie LaBorde
AZ 85048-0153↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Cathie Ernst
AZ 85255-8026↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Stephen Vaughan
AZ 85750-1615↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Shelby Rahilly Jasmer
AZ 85257-1006↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Iris Wolfe
AZ 86301↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Pam Lemke
AZ 85646-4041↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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 comment
s submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Residents in this area have already had to drill their wells deeper but they are going dry already. The well water may already be contaminated from what the Rosemont mine has dumped.
Please don't let them destroy the Santa Ritas!! The jaguars are known in the affected area to say nothing of MANY other animals. It is an area sacred to Native Americans who live in Southern Arizona.
There are many more reasons to deny this permit than there are to approve it. Please listen to common sense and tell this CANADIAN company NO!!!!
Sincerely,
Carol Frazier
AZ 85641-9233↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
NANCY GODWIN
AZ 85748-8223↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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 Weigand
AZ 85031-2533↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Ivalee Wilson
AZ 85745-1002↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Robin Doidge
AZ 85716-3203↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Judy OHiggins
AZ 86314-0159↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
M. Stein
AZ 86326-8907↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Susan Janke
AZ 86401-5561↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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.
Water, public health and the environment are important to me.
Sincerely,
Joanne Harenburg
AZ 85034-1035↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
George Duster
AZ 85118-9769↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Elan Carlson
AZ 85302-4344↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Connie Hupperts
AZ 85345-5267↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Hugo Soll
AZ 85257-1909↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Sandra Gianotti
AZ 85739-1149↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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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,
Trina Keafer
AZ 85204-6070↓
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Dear Water Quality Division Director Trevor Baggiore,
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 signifi...↓cantly 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,
Cedra Spragett
AZ 86326-4901↓
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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,
Nadine Peternel
AZ 85650-8507↓
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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 Sumler
AZ 86441-0204↓
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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 Harshman
AZ 85749-8691↓
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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,
Alan Hoeffler
AZ 86305↓
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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,
Stephania Williams
AZ 85253-3576↓
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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,
Sara Marisa
AZ 85118-7324↓
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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,
Dara Rider
AZ 85144-4777↓
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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 Hanson
AZ 85748-7610↓
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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,
Lenore Kester
AZ 85602-2091↓
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