What was it like to work at Copper Flat Mine in 1982? Will that be what working at Copper Flat Mine will be like if the mine were reopened? This is a Labor Day meditation on working at the mine.
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 fourth part of this series on Mining and Minerals Division’s September 17th Hearing on permitting Copper Flat Mine is written by guest writer Lee Newman, owner of Animas Creek Nursery.
NMCC’s amended application to mine Copper Flat Mine focuses on the change in tailings management and the claim of saving water. It neglects to discuss how the loss of 80% of their claimed water rights would affect their plan to reclaim the pit, because it doesn’t plan any change.
This article is the second analysis of the Copper Flat Mine project. Mining and Minerals Division will hold a hearing on the application’s proposal to filter tailings to save water. It is doubtful if this change will save water and if it will save enough water to operate the mine.
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.
Basic New Mexico water law will help you understand how the Settlement Agreement which ended the Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado lawsuit will affect your water use and your taxes.
The settlement of Texas’ suit against New Mexico ended the legal proceedings that have so vaguely and abstractly hovered unnoticed over our lives, but the consequences of that settlement will be dominating our lives specifically, concretely (meaning economically), and most noticeably in the coming years.
We are depleting the Rio Grande Basin faster and faster every year, the groundwater 15 times faster than the river waters, reports the first comprehensive study of consumption in the whole Rio Grande/Bravo Basin system.
I republish here (a bit late) an article by Danielle Prokop from Source NM, which is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Danielle Prokop reports on climate crisis on the Rio Grande, water litigation and health impacts from pollution.
T or C and the Village of Williamsburg could use storm water to green up, but dump
it, polluted, into the river. We pay nearly $9 per 1,000 gallons to pump and treat sewer water into "effluent" that waters the golf course and parks. It's cheaper to intercept storm water.
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