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,
Lisa Williamson
AZ 85712-1820↓
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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,
Margo Wollenberg
AZ 85603↓
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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. TUCSON CAN'T SPARE THE WATER.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ann Markow
AZ 85016-2343↓
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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,
Saeko Yamauchi
AZ 85207-7415↓
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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 Goldansky
AZ 85254-5821↓
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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 Tanner
AZ 86336-3116↓
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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,
Bill Chambers
AZ 85701-3052↓
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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,
Olinda Lynn
DC 20009↓
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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,
Sandra Stock
AZ 85710-2481↓
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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 Lane
AZ 85286-7370↓
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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,
Brianne Evans
AZ 85541-3531↓
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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,
Wolf Wiemer
AZ 85022-1210↓
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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,
Steve-Anna Stephens
AZ 85718-1365↓
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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,
Ken Kurtz
AZ 85281↓
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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 Beesemyer
AZ 85712-6607↓
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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,
J. Kozura
AZ 85205-6503↓
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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,
Laurel Anderson
AZ 85032-6909↓
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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,
Patrick Fachet
AZ 85048-5024↓
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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 Greendorfer
AZ 85749-7131↓
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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 Benschoter
AZ 85044-1112↓
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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,
Lori B Girshick
AZ 85215-3511↓
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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 Murphy
AZ 85295-4800↓
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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,
Jennifer Wolff
AZ 86340-4238↓
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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,
Marjorie Browning
AZ 85602-7822↓
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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 Gerhart
AZ 85304-3004↓
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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 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,
Arlene Dreste
AZ 85321-9758↓
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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. As a published author of a book about the beautiful Santa Ritas and the need to keep it clean for humanity and the w...↓ildlife that have claimed it for habitat for thousands of years, I wish to add my voice to the many others who oppose Hudbay's application.
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,
Robert Ronning
AZ 85743-5500↓
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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,
Katherine Hinson
AZ 85295-7212↓
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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,
Philip Shook
AZ 85281-0033↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Patricia Downer
AZ 85710-1215↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments on Hudbay Minerals' Copper World project Draft Aquifer Protection Permit. I’m extremely concerned that the proposed design plan in this application does not adequately prote...↓ct Arizona’s public health, environment, and groundwater.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach using toxic chemicals for processing significant amounts of copper, will be extremely close to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells, and could contaminate and degrade these critical water sources.
The current draft permit appears to dangerously favor the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. This is unacceptable. I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facility alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, to provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Lainie Levick
AZ 85749-9076↓
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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,
Weslie Phillips
AZ 85390-1554↓
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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. It just completely amazes me that you folks would even consider this sorry excuse for a project. I read Pima County's response to this proposal. There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to begin. The biggest problem as I see it, is what these mines will do with the water supply. Just the Rosemont mine will use between 3-5 billion gal of water a year. Did you folks forget that we are in a desert environment? The water to be drawn out of these aquifers is thousands of years old. Once gone it will never be replaced. The only thing that will replace the water being drawn out is the pollutants going in. The entire character of this area surrounding the Santa Rita mountains will change forever. This will be your legacy to Arizona and future generations will never be proud of if you let this go through.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional 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 Perry Jr.
AZ 85637-6539↓
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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,
Deborah Gibbs
AZ 85375-5104↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Patagonia was the long time home of my great grandparents and the birthplace and home of my mother. The protection of the water and land is personal to me.
Thank you for the chance to submit 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,
Deborah Fox
AZ 85745-9460↓
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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 Schermer
AZ 86336-7416↓
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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,
Martha Diaz
AZ 85324-1137↓
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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 Enright
AZ 85251-7006↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Patricia Hale
AZ 85704-2723↓
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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,
Jessica LoCicero-Walsh
AZ 86005-8859↓
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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,
Daniel Figueroa
AZ 85210-5378↓
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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 Blake
AZ 86301-4894↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Ronald Koshinz
AZ 85120-2563↓
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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,
Nate atkins
AZ 85614-1932↓
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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 Halversen
AZ 85718-2318↓
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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,
Janet Cohn
AZ 85750-2903↓
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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,
Judson Wynne
AZ 86005-9549↓
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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. Water is the most important resource next to clean air, and Arizona is one of the driest states in the union. Current climate change makes careful use of our limited water even more critical. Water is also a limited resource with ever increasing demands for it. We must protect it at all costs.
Sincerely,
Don Ries
AZ 85747-5966↓
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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,
Jackie Bomgardner
AZ 85338-1525↓
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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,
YogaDair Moremail
OR 97330-9444↓
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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,
Nadia Valle
AZ 85746-3133↓
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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,
VALERINA QUINTANA
AZ 85701-2853↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
David Madden
AZ 85603↓
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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 Klement
AZ 85702-0468↓
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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,
Carmel Parr
AZ 85022-3021↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
David Zukerman
AZ 85258-4810↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Janice Catt
AZ 85718-5714↓
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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,
Elaine Santo
AZ 85625-6209↓
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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,
Georgia Braithwaite
AZ 86326-6108↓
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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,
Gerry Milliken
AZ 86326-5991↓
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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,
Lisa Toller
MA 02125-3120↓
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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,
Sarah Mauet
AZ 85718-1514↓
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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,
Janet Loy
AZ 86325↓
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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,
HAROLD FULLER
AZ 85348-0552↓
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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,
maureen loosli
AZ 85234-1724↓
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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,
Elaine Fletcher
AZ 85716-3029↓
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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,
Frances Causey
AZ 85646↓
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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,
Samantha Utter
AZ 85715-4557↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
As a longtime resident of Arizona and advocate for our state's unique environment and amazing wildlife, I thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concer...↓ned 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,
Deb Thompson
AZ 85749-8844↓
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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,
Rick Glider
AZ 85741-1352↓
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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,
Janis Hammond
AZ 85741-1162↓
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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,
June Campbell
AZ 85733-2724↓
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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,
Melvin Bautista
AZ 85044-1906↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I am a resident of Santa Cruz County, AZ, and we are having a very similar conversation regarding the Hermosa Project in Patagonia. Why are you allowing these foreign mining companies to take or ruin all of our natura...↓l resources? What are you getting out of these deals that makes you willing to sacrifice our health and well being? Please protect Arizona’s water and air quality as well as our precious biodiversity so that Arizonans can continue to enjoy our beautiful surroundings for generations to come. If we stay on this track and approve all of these lax permits, our state will not be fit for human or animal life for very long. Choose wisely.
Thank you for the chance to submit 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,
Emily Moddelmog
AZ 85648-3240↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
We appreciate the opportunity to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. There is concern 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,
Voncille Henry
AZ 85712-2177↓
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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,
Lonnie Davis-Velez
AZ 85082-4042↓
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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,
Sandy Stuhaan
AZ 85719-2780↓
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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,
Rebecca Richardson
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,
Kaylee Marshall
AZ 85308-6688↓
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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,
Esther David
AZ 86326-6370↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Peter Curia
AZ 85257-2637↓
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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,
Thomas Nelson
AZ 85641-9152↓
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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,
Rona Homer
AZ 85255-5900↓
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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,
Jennifer Sellers
AZ 85704-1347↓
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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,
Sarah Truebe
AZ 85711-4205↓
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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,
Jesse Freitas
AZ 85120-7205↓
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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 Eckert
AZ 85254-3237↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
I am a native Arizonan. I have seen this city go from a small farming community into the sprawling Metropolis that it is now. Too many developers have been allowed in our state.Taking away our precious resources and our wil...↓dlife habitat.Thank you for the chance to submit 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,
Cynthia Gaio
AZ 85023-4111↓
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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,
Rebecca Howe
AZ 85283-3549↓
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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,
Dianne Douglas
AZ 85042-7082↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Loucks
AZ 86303↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Veronica Swift
AZ 85718-3535↓
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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. There is no monetary value that could come close to how precious and valuable the Santa Rita mountains are and the w...↓ater that flows and lives underground in them.
The pit mines that Hudbay proposes would permanently alter the mountains forever and we, people in the city and outskirts of Tucson and tribal nations, would lose a one of a kind ecosystem that supports so much life in the middle of the Sonoran desert. I do not like seeing how much government entities and officials are so little about preserving land, preserving water sources. Hudbay Minerals has no business in the Santa Rita mountains.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Clarice Bales
AZ 85705-7519↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for opening a comment period on Hudbay Minerals’ application for the Copper World Project; however, given the lack of rigor within Hudbay Minerals' proposal and the danger posed by allowing the company to monitor ...↓its own adherence (or lack thereof) to its proposed mitigation measures, I hope that you'll reject the permit application (either permanently or, at the very least, until Hudbay Minerals substantially improves its plan to safeguard nearby communities and ecosystems). The people of Tucson and Sahuarita, not to mention the fragile ecosystems of the Santa Rita mountains, cannot afford the potential water and soil contamination risks which Hudbay Minerals' current proposal entails (e.g., the risks posed by its plan to pour tailings through a company-monitored slurry pipeline into a unlined holding facility; its plan to use dangerous quantities of acid in close proximity to people's drinking-water supplies; and its plan to simply abandon the unwanted rock debris in uncovered dumps once the mining is done, which may be all sorts of fun for relatively lazy rockhounds to dig through but which pose potential health threats to everyone living and working nearby).
At the absolute least, please require the following improvements to Hudbay Minerals' plan:
- The plan must include every permit requirement, condition, and agency review which Pima County staff recommended to your agency via their technical comment on March 11, 2024.
- Hudbay Minerals cannot be left to largely monitor its own compliance with vital environmental-protection laws, and you cannot safely allow this operation to go forward with only biennial monitoring; the ADEQ should instead conduct biannual monitoring of every parameter listed in Table 20 of the APP.
- To further ensure that waste materials do not leach into people's water supplies unnoticed, please require Hudbay Minerals to store tailings within a lined and dry-stacked facility, *not* an unlined dump; to employ every applicable industry-standard-or-better measure to minimize pollution; and install and maintain at least two additional point-of-compliance wells to monitor water quality within the aquifer adjacent to the planned east pit.
- Please mandate that Hudbay Minerals actually includes the whole planned east pit, along with the headwaters of all streams (including relatively small ones) near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits, within the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1.
- Define (and enforce) a rigorous minimum rate at which Hudbay Minerals must conduct waste-rock acid content analysis during all operations, not simply during the first year of its planned project.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Dorn
AZ 85284-2837↓
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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 Jones
AZ 86325-5166↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
As a long time resident of Arizona who loves to hike and enjoy the stunningly beautiful natural areas of this state, I try to keep abreast of any developments and projects that may harm not only the beauty but the environme...↓ntal health of those areas and the surrounding human communities. So I'm writing today in regards to the Copper World Project's Draft Aquifer Protection Permit No. 513690, LTF 90620. I really appreciate the opportunity to be able to submit comments on this. So thank you! After reviewing the issues at hand, I find I agree with the Center for Biological Diversity on this issue and am submitting as my comments their detailed letter to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality:
Thank you for the chance to submit 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.
Thank you again for the opportunity to submit comments on this project.
Sincerely,
Matthew Hall
AZ 86002-2273↓
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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 sky islands are some of the most biodiverse land in the world and must be protected for future generations to enjoy. If Hudbay is allowed to operate open pit mines in the Santa Rita range, the land can never be returned to its original form as the damage that will be done is ireversable. I urge you to look at Hudbay’s mining operations in other parts of the world and see what damage they have caused.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Sabrina Spencer
AZ 85614-5946↓
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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 Colgero
AZ 85331-5063↓
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Dear Bernice Manuelito,
Thank you for the chance to submit comments on the Copper World project's draft aquifer-protection permit. I’m concerned that the plan design proposed in Hudbay Minerals’ application is significantly less protective of Ariz...↓ona’s public health, environment and groundwater than the designs submitted by the previous owners of the Rosemont Mine.
Hudbay Minerals’ application proposes to use water to convey tailings in a slurry pipeline, operate an unlined tailings facility, leave waste-rock dumps uncovered at closure, and deploy inadequate monitoring systems. The planned processing facilities, including a heap leach for processing significant amounts of acid, will be much closer to Tucson and Sahuarita’s municipal water supplies and rural domestic wells than previously suggested.
The current draft permit proposed by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality appears to be dangerously indulgent of the polluter at the expense of people and the environment. That’s unacceptable. So I request that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality protects the state’s water and public health by including the following stringent requirements in the aquifer-protection permit:
1. Hudbay Minerals must complete an economic and practical evaluation of tailings-storage facilities alternatives, including a lined and dry-stacked facility, among other potential redesigns.
2. Hudbay Minerals must include the entire east pit and the headwaters of small streams near the Broadtop Butte and Copper World pits in the Pollutant Management Area for Copper World’s Phase 1, which will provide the best chance of detecting contaminants.
3. Hudbay Minerals must establish two additional point-of-compliance wells to ensure that the east-side aquifer isn’t impaired by operations at the east pit.
4. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality must define a minimum frequency of waste-rock acid content analysis for continued operations following the first year.
5. Hudbay Minerals must submit to biannual rather than biennial monitoring of the expanded list of parameters listed in Table 20 in the APP — which will aid in detection of pollutants that may otherwise go undetected for too long and delay an investigation into the pollution and the implementation of a remedy.
Finally, I request better deployment of industry-standard technologies by Hudbay Minerals for minimizing pollution, and I ask that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality require the additional permit conditions, requirements and agency reviews detailed in the technical comments submitted by Pima County staff to your agency on March 11, 2024.
Sincerely,
Nadine Peternel
AZ 85650-8507↓
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