How many times have you experienced extremely low water pressure, yet the city issued no boil-water order? This time City Manager Gary Whitehead was responsible and truthful and issued one.
Continuing to think about the 500 acres of stacked tailings and what can keep the tailings from sliding downhill, I turn to the mine’s submitted technical studies on this subject. These studies do not give assurance that the miners know the answer to that question either. This is dangerous.
Several months ago, a PAWA member asked me what kept the big stack of tailings (500 acres and 200 feet deep) proposed at Copper Flat Mine from sliding down the hill. I try to answer that question. This is the first of a two-part article.
We owe the one and a half year turnaround of the city's wastewater treatment plant problems to City Manager Gary Whitehead. He's saved the people a lot of time, money and liability.
We calculate whether NMCC has enough water to mine Copper Flat in the manner proposed in its application to mine. It does not. Why, then, has NMCC applied for a mining permit?
AI Overview defines synesthesia as "a neurological condition where a trigger in one sense or concept causes an involuntary experience in another. There are dozens of distinct types, categorized by the trigger (inducer) and the resulting experience (concurrent)." Get ready to be triggered by Nolan Winkler's new works.
We in Sierra County are living in, and at long last, beginning to understand that we live day to day in a water crisis. What is the justification for allowing someone to withdraw and evaporate a million gallons of groundwater a day during that social and economic crisis?
Will Copper Flat Mine bring economic benefits to the county? A reasonable answer needs to balance both pros and the cons, not just repeat the PR blurbs. Here are some pertinent publicly known facts you may want to remember that relate to how Copper Flat Mine may impact us.
The gross receipts and lodgers tax revenue figures for local governments don't bear out that low lake levels have caused that much economic damage. Are local governments' emergency declarations crying wolf?
But will this $2.3 million engineering plan and $25 million in construction be done to get water to the airport to attract business? And the people, once again, will be on the hook for building it, in the hopes they will come? Business is special interest. What about the people?
A one-page budget, passed with no questions asked and turned into the Department of Finance and Administration three weeks late. That's the level of fiscal oversight our publicly-owned hospital is getting from our elected officials.
State regulators announce the scheduling of a hearing on Copper Flat mine, and the Citizen begins a series of articles on the mine’s plan of operations and reclamation.