The new Water Law Reading Room includes a comprehensive case law index, the National AgLaw Center publications, an overview article, a federal statute compilation, and a compilation of each state's water laws and regulations. The room also contains valuable links to federal agencies, a listing of states' water offices, water organizations, and other resources.
Pima County, Clean Water Act Effectiveness Review, Jan. 13, 2009
Presentation from the June 18 Public Forum in Tucson
What About Our Water?
Pima County's comments on water impacts from the proposed mine
Hydrogeology of the Santa Rita Rosemont Site, by Tom Myers, report to the Pima County Board of Supervisors, Aug. 8, 2007
(link to the report on the Pima County website)
Pima County preliminary review of the possible hydrologic impacts from the Rosemont Mine to the Cienega Watershed, Sept. 5, 2007
Water Quality
New Mexico protects it's groundwater from mining pollution, Jan. 13, 2009
Clean Water Act / Santa Cruz River TNW
Help protect the nation's waters - The Clean Water Restoration Act
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The Ecological and Hydrological Significance of Ephemeral and Intermittent Streams in the Arid and Semi-arid American Southwest
A report addressing our dry washes and their importance for protection under the Clean Water Act.
EPA and Congress: Restoring the Clean Water Act, Wick Communications, Richard Kamp, Mar. 3, 2009
In 2008 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers determined that two reaches of the Santa Cruz River, located in Pima, Pinal and Santa Cruz counties, are considered "navigable waters of the United States. This is important because it may require the Rosemont Mine to get additional permits to protect water quality downstream from the site.
However, the memo regarding the determination has since been taken off the Army Corps website. Tucson Audubon Society has posted information about this on their website.
Los Angeles Times, Floating to Save the Los Angeles River, Oct. 30, 2008
"The ultimate test of a moral society
is the kind of world
that it leaves to its children "
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
