I will not be able to be at the meeting on Tuesday but I wanted you to know that I support you and your efforts to get CAP water and taking advantage of the Augusta Mine project to get it. We need the water and there is no dispute on that point. It seems to me its either we pay for the CAP water or Augusta does. I trust your judgment on the arrangement with Augusta.
LC - Member since 2005, lives in Country Club Vistas
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I am very much in favor of the action you are taking with respect to the importation of CAP water to Green Valley, and I hope you will continue your negotiations for funds to construct the pipeline along the lines already outlined. The people who think that we should wait for the state or the county to provide funds are living in a dream world. This is a win-win situation for Green Valley and Sahuarita.
RC - Member since CWC merged in New Pueblo Estates in 1990
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I strongly support the proposal to bring CAP water to Green Valley and accept the offer of the Rosemont mining group to pay for the extension. Mining is one of the lifeblood industries of Arizona, badly needed and seldom fully appreciated.
MN - Member since 1998 lives in Continent Vistas
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You are to be congratulated
on a very concise, complete and excellent letter of explanation regarding the
need for a pipeline of CAP water to
JK - Member since 1991 lives in Country Club Estates
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First, let me say that I respect your efforts to bring CAP water to our part of the Santa Cruz Aquifer.
However, the news about the Augusta "deal" to build a pipeline from the current terminus of the CAP system at Pima Mine Road down to this part of the Valley at no cost to Community Water (or other water users in this area) makes be nervous.
They are going to build the pipeline without any cost to Community Water. To me, that means that they will own, and have full control of the use of that pipeline. It raises the question: how much they might charge Community Water (or any other potential customer) to transport their CAP allotment down to the Sahuarita/Green Valley area for recharge through the Augusta pipeline..
At this time, I would prefer to see the pipeline built be a group of Green Valley area companies (for example: Community Water, Green Valley Water, PDSI, and FICO). I would also prefer that no single participant would have a large enough "share" of the pipeline cost to claim "control". I suppose that Augusta could participate, but they might not find that arrangement to their liking.
I would like to attend Wednesday's meeting, but Marcia and I will be on our way to Montana to tour Glacier National Park, and then on to some other National Parks in that part of the country. Therefore, I have chosen this method of expressing my concerns.
AM - Member in Continental Vistas
Note - Sent customer a newsletter and spoke regarding questions to clarified the issues.
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Sneaky... Sneaky...Sneaky. It should by obvious to anyone in this area that the people of Green Valley DO NOT want the Santa Rosa Mountains destroyed by another mining misadventure. It should be obvious, especially to Community Water, that mining destroys the water supply, is a health hazard, destroys the flora and fauna in the area, and is esthetically unpleasant to the senses. Everything I have read, or heard expresses the displeasure of the people of Green Valley, and Pima County, in having more mining in the area, but in spite of this, you have been negotiating with the enemy, without our knowledge, in support of the a foreign company. It is not only shameful, but dishonest.
CD - Green Valley Resident
Note - CWC sent individual a newsletter and replied with email to customer as follows:
Dear CD,
By now you have probably realized that Community Water is not responsible for the federal government’s approval process on the Rosemont Mine. Community Water is concerned about the possible loss of water if the federal government approves the Rosemont Mine and has negotiated to ensure that any water used by the Rosemont Mine is replaced by Augusta. Thanks for your input to us.
Sincerely,
Arturo Gabaldón
Community Water Company of Green Valley
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Many thanks for the time you spent this morning explaining the situation with Augusta and the CAP pipeline. Our conversation was very helpful -- and very informative. Fired with a refreshed sense of endeavor I have sent the attached letter to the Editor of Green Valley News. Best regards
Funding the Cap Pipeline
There cannot be a person in the Santa Cruz valley who is not aware of the critical state of our long term water supply - the aquifer is diminishing at an alarming rate that nature alone cannot replenish. Nevertheless residential development continues throughout the valley and imposes still further demand on our most vital and fundamental resource. The only glimmer of hope for the future is the availability of our limited allocation of CAP water. To make this available that water needs to be recharged here in the Santa Cruz valley - not in Marana!
While this is by no means exclusively a Community Water problem, after years of endeavor they have found a possible way forward by accepting a deal with Augusta Resources. There is widespread distrust of the motives of Augusta and it seems very few people in the community support the development of the Rosemont mine and the inevitable devastation it will cause. And so, if we don't want Community Water to make the only deal available to them, the community at large needs to step up to the plate and lobby for alternative sources of funding.
It seems money can be found for a great many other capital projects in and around Sahuarita and Green Valley -- all of which have some merit - then why is it not possible to find money for this CAP pipeline - the most critical issue of all? Furthermore if we persuade Community Water to abandon the Augusta deal, Augusta is free to go to the commission reviewing their mine application and say they offered help and it was turned down - then the CAP water will go to Marana and we will be the losers. The whole community needs to get behind the CAP pipeline project because nothing, nothing, should have higher priority - and we should be indebted to Community Water for their initiative and their feasibility studies that show how this can be achieved.
GK