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Residents raise water-quality and property concerns about Busby effluent recharge project at Cochise County meeting
Summary
Two residents told the Cochise County Flood Control District on June 10 that a proposed effluent recharge project near the San Pedro River could harm wells, property values and river health; supervisors said work sessions and more information are planned and no formal county action on the project was taken that day.
At the Cochise County Flood Control District meeting on June 10, 2025, two members of the public raised objections to a proposed effluent recharge project variously referred to in testimony as the “Busby” or “Visby” effluent recharge project and urged the board to investigate potential impacts on the San Pedro River and local wells.
Jack Ricky Veal, identified in the meeting as a speaker during public comment, said he had documents and references and asked the board to review them. "What I wanna talk about is the Busby Effluent Project," Veal said, and later warned, "we're gonna be drinking cancer product causing, products if y'all allow this project to happen and pump into our river." He said ranchers with long family ties to the San Pedro watershed, including a rancher he named as…
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