To protect groundwater, can you help make your voice known to revoke a Town of Sahuarita agreement?
The agreement allows Hudbay Minerals to construct an underground water pipeline along Santa Rita Rd., to the planned Copper World mine of the Santa Rita Mountains.
Preventing the water pipeline can block Toronto-based Hudbay’s preferred route to transmit more than three billion gallons of groundwater from its well field just east of Sahuarita to Copper World.
The 2013 agreement requires Hudbay to replenish 105% of groundwater used to operate Copper World in the immediate area from where it is taken. Research reveals there is no chance Hudbay can replenish a fraction of the water it will pump, let alone 105%.
A loophole of the agreement has no penalty if Hudbay fails to recharge 105% of the aquifer. The agreement only requires Hudbay to replace the town’s water production well if damaged by Copper World’s groundwater pumping.
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This is deceitful, has no penalties for inadequate replenishment, and needs to be stopped.
Leslie Martiny
Northwest side
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