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,
Adarsh Ayyar
AZ 85253-5328↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Beverly Janowitz-Price
AZ 85014-5620↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Stacy Ziems
AZ 85710-5807↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ryan Holly
FL 33179↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mike Handforth
AZ 86018-0351↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Maria Nasif
AZ 85718-2417↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mary Wellington
AZ 85704-4726↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
THERE IS NO REASON TO APPROVE THIS VAST POLLUTION!!!
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minera...↓ls’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Edward Sample
AZ 85331-8881↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Aleta Bloch
AZ 85749-9610↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Charry Stover
AZ 85728-4958↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Aggie Shapiro
AZ 85020-4701↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Abigail Villodas
AZ 85331-6000↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jane Gibson
NE 68001↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Richard Skinner
AZ 85705-2184↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Sean Casey
AZ 85142-3784↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Phillip Mello
AZ 85226-6210↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
robin bowyer
AZ 85745-2855↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Waltasti
AZ 85138-3299↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
* my personal perspective is that mankind cannot continue to waste and destroy the natural world any further. Once the natural world is all gone, we are next, and our children and grandchildren will suffer *
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
CHARLOTTE MURPHY
AZ 85021-2904↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Peggy Faucher
AZ 85624-6147↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mark Cederholm
AZ 86001-7213↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ruth Eckert
AZ 85254-3237↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Jon Crawford
AZ 85282-7601↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Christine Hutchens
AZ 85745-1892↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Dacia Murphy
AZ 85213-3180↓
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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 Clepper
AZ 85705-7338↓
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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,
Cheryl Delvecchio
AZ 85383-7601↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Saunders
AZ 85701-2518↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Maria Borbon LL.M.
AZ 85719-6149↓
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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,
Nancy Snyder
AZ 86326-2301↓
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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,
Lynne Kasai
AZ 86004-1006↓
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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,
Kris Tibsherany Kris
AZ 85201-7034↓
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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 Kearney
AZ 85087-3043↓
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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,
Charlotte Weiss
AZ 85715-4135↓
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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,
Dacia Murphy
AZ 85213-3180↓
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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 Clepper
AZ 85705-7338↓
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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,
Cheryl Delvecchio
AZ 85383-7601↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Saunders
AZ 85701-2518↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Maria Borbon LL.M.
AZ 85719-6149↓
No attachments
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,
Nancy Snyder
AZ 86326-2301↓
No attachments
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,
Lynne Kasai
AZ 86004-1006↓
No attachments
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,
Kris Tibsherany Kris
AZ 85201-7034↓
No attachments
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 Kearney
AZ 85087-3043↓
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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,
Charlotte Weiss
AZ 85715-4135↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
We MUST do better with protecting our biodiversity and the beautiful plant and animal beings. Our greed and ignorance have wreaked havoc on our Mother. Protect what is left for our grandchildren and theirs.
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,
Martha Boose
AZ 85710-6349↓
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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 Kennedy Ice
AZ 85755-5944↓
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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.
We are trying to conserve water, in Arizona, to provide drinking water and water for farming, and 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,
Kathryn Kaffer
AZ 85705-1978↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
My Partner and I own land very close to where this mine is trying to locate, and frankly, we both do not want to see this happen. Not only are you going to poison our groundwater, but you are also taking away natural habitat that is essential for many of our desert wildlife to live. We are not above nature!
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,
Natasha Ivanov
AZ 85716-4728↓
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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,
Gary Vargo
AZ 85267-2595↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
John Rush
AZ 85658-5093↓
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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,
George Page
AZ 85249-5416↓
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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,
Jacob Richards
AZ 85711-2206↓
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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,
Suzanne Szkodzinski
AZ 85028-1919↓
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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,
Marti Burgan
AZ 86301-4414↓
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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,
Tobey Thatcher
AZ 85629-0840↓
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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,
Gwen Detlefsen
AZ 85373↓
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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. Using previous water, ravaging, polluting, spoiling and killing Jaguar habitat & this majestic region should not occur - go mine somewhere else!
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mike Friel
AZ 85719-4348↓
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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,
Timothy Spurlin
AZ 85016-1531↓
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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,
Vanessa Hill
AZ 85621-9756↓
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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,
Gwen Detlefsen
AZ 85373↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I'm a native of Southern AZ and 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 signi...↓ficantly 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. Please do the right thing for the region and its inhabitants.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Cruz
AZ 85255-6375↓
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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,
Myriam Oviedo
AZ 85718-2958↓
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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,
Catherine Grossman
AZ 85716-3240↓
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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,
Laura Walls
AZ 85715-5604↓
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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,
Rose Kugler
AZ 86305-3844↓
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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,
Julie Flaim
AZ 85053-1820↓
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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,
Kim Antieau
AZ 85748-2084↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m very concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protectiv...↓e 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,
Peggy Sanders
AZ 85710-7305↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Mark Hodgson
AZ 85282-2738↓
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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,
Gary McCormick
AZ 85713-4514↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Karen Lindke
AZ 85901-6565↓
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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,
Olivier Leroy
AZ 86336-6320↓
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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,
Nancy Heintz
AZ 85248-6176↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
You must kill this crazy mind idea.
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 i...↓s 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,
Mansur Johnson
AZ 85741-3470↓
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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,
Norma Kafer
AZ 85007-1524↓
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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,
Kirsty MacCalman
AZ 85716-1116↓
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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,
Stephanie Vo
AZ 85340-4167↓
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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,
Melanie Mouras
AZ 85615-0309↓
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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,
Jeffrey Blackman
AZ 85717-1624↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
robert crenshaw
AZ 85021-8521↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I am a citizen, born and life-long resident of Southern Arizona. I’m very concerned that the plan proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Arizona’s public health, environment and ground...↓water than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Thankfully, responsible government rejected the Rosemont corporate plan to destroy habitat and groundwater critical to citizens and natural resources in our area. The present proposal of another foreign corporation to do even more damage should be rejected by all government agencies, just as it is by all residents of the threatened region. I and my family join the petition presented herein with all of our hearts and minds. We are grateful for responsible government agencies which renders physical resistance of the people against destruction of our water and natural resources a last resort. Please keep in mind that tourism is our biggest economic sector - ie, citizens and people from far away places come here specifically to enjoy the beauty threatened by this foreign mining company.
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,
Joel Parris
AZ 85745-8746↓
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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,
Louise Stark
AZ 85007-1735↓
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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. I also note that mining companies in Arizona have a long history of walking away from their polluted mines when economics turn against them.
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 brun
AZ 85716-2804↓
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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,
Cheryl Goodberg
AZ 85658-4094↓
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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,
Amy Douglass
AZ 85286-4452↓
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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,
Cecilia Laspisa
AZ 85748-3820↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
John and Robbie Wertin
AZ 85541-3374↓
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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,
Dinah Bahlman
AZ 85024-4196↓
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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,
Rosemary Haas
AZ 85259-3217↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Linda Stitt
AZ 85615-9434↓
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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,
Susan Soltis
AZ 85250-6147↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Vana
AZ 85194-8504↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I truly can’t believe that ADEQ is considering this aquifer “protection” permit! The north slope of the Santa Rita range is such an important sub-surface contributor to the Tucson Basin aquifer! Water quality and future a...↓vailability is Tucson’s greatest challenge. Is the financial success of Hudbay Minerals more important?? 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,
John Luepke
AZ 85643-7543↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Michael Costa
AZ 86301-2912↓
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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,
Debra Bradford
AZ 86301-5630↓
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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,
Sherry Massie
AZ 85748-3852↓
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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,
Alexia Ferranti-Neilson
AZ 85710-2261↓
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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 Parker
AZ 85704-6946↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Anna Grizzle
AZ 86409-1408↓
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