{"id":158,"date":"2022-08-16T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2025-05-13T04:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:35:40","slug":"protecting-our-rural-groundwater-users-from-mine-dewatering-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Protecting our rural groundwater users from mine dewatering impacts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This evening, I supported the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gilaresources.info\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gila Resources Information Project<\/a> by summarizing my technical review and comments on the Emma Project, in which Freeport-McMoRan plans to add a new mine pit to its Tyrone operation. This would involve permanent dewatering of the eventual pit and remove anywhere from 30 to 100 acre-feet of water per year for the same aquifer relied on by existing nearby residents as their only source of water. I testified on the the potential for dewatering impacts to nearby domestic wells as well as my concerns about the hydrogeologic studies are supporting Freeport&#8217;s permit and water rights applications. It was a great experience, and it was nice to hear compliments from GRIP&#8217;s Executive Direction and its Board president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-718x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-718x1024.png 718w, https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-768x1096.png 768w, https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image.png 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><figcaption>Figure from Freeport&#8217;s consultant report predicting mine-related drawdown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighborly concerns expressed in public hearing for proposed Tyrone mine expansion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,8,36],"tags":[11,4,16,30,35],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-groundwater","category-sustainability","category-water","category-water-management","tag-geology","tag-groundwater","tag-principles-and-techniques","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stratusenviro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}