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Residents press council for clearer, plain‑language answers on antimony and monitoring
Summary
Multiple residents urged the council for transparent, detailed water‑testing results and plain‑language explanations of health risk after an antimony sample exceedance; one speaker asked the town to demand a permit stay until amended protections are submitted.
Several residents used the call‑to‑the‑public period to press the council for clearer information and monitoring after South32’s sampling discussion. Anna Darian, who said she lives in the community and works with Para, asked directly: “Is this water safe?” and said residents need plain‑language answers and a clear monitoring plan before wells are returned to service. She said many in town worry whether it is sustainable to live here given the reported contamination concerns.
Greg Gorton, a retired physician who said he developed an antimony fact sheet for residents, asked whether test results using a new methodology would be made public and requested detailed data rather than general assurances. Christopher Coven urged the town, as a CPBA signatory, to demand a stay of mine operations and to require resubmitted, adequately amended permits citing a draft EIS discussion of an underground antimony plume. The council did not vote on any of those requests during the meeting; the South32 presenter later said the company will make additional results public and will commit to monitoring in the final EIS.
