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Posted On: 08/20/2013 2:03:03 PM
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Local Coalition Goes to Court to Protect Southern Arizona Water

Lawsuit filed to overturn Rosemont Groundwater Permit

(Tucson, Ariz.) A diverse coalition of southern Arizonans filed a lawsuit on Friday to overturn

state approval of a key water permit for the proposed Rosemont Mine in the Santa Rita

Mountains, south of Tucson.

Despite its name, the “aquifer protection permit” would allow a Canadian mining company to

pollute Tucson’s groundwater supplies with mercury, arsenic, lead and other dangerous

contaminants.

The suit seeks to overturn the Arizona Water Quality Appeals Board's (WQAB) decision to

approve Rosemont Copper Company’s Aquifer Protection Permit. The suit asserts that the

WQAB acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" when it rubber-stamped the Administrative Law

Judge’s rejection of administrative appeals of the permit.

Vancouver, B.C.-based Augusta Resource Corporation is seeking permits for its subsidiary

Rosemont Copper Company to construct an open-pit copper mine in the Santa Rita Mountains on

the Coronado National Forest southeast of Tucson.

“As it stands today, the Aquifer Protection Permit for Rosemont should instead be called the

Rosemont Aquifer Pollution permit. Southern Arizonans take threats to their water very seriously

and that is why we are taking this action,” said Gayle Hartmann, President of Save the Scenic

Santa Ritas, a citizens’ coalition opposed to the mine. “Rosemont likes to talk about the

economics of this mine, but the economic costs will be catastrophic if the WQAB and the

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality shirk their responsibilities and allow the

permanent destruction of southern Arizona's water resources by this foreign mining company.”

Issues identified in the suit include:

* The WQAB rubber-stamped the ALJ's findings and recommendations. Water Quality

Appeals Board members publicly admitted they had not carefully read the ALJ’s decision

nor any of the other materials submitted in the course of the lengthy hearings on this

matter. Despite that admission, their written decision states - falsely - that they “reviewed

the ALJ Decision, transcripts and arguments of the parties, and the WQAB completed a

full and careful deliberation of the same.”


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