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More than two decades ago, Mining District communities banded together to secure funding for a wastewater plant to service the three municipalities of Bayard, Hurley and Santa Clara. Since the plant’s construction, the majority of the effluent water released from the plant has been pumped to Freeport-McMoRan’s Chino Mines Co. The mine, however, does not have a use for the water roughly 400,000 gallons per day, according to Santa … ....
(Daily Press File Photo) Construction workers make headway on the Hurley water project along U.S. 180 early in 2020. The project was beset by difficulties this year, mainly involving the two new wells drilled west of town to produce water for the municipality, which has always depended on water provided by the Chino Mines Company. The town of Hurley still has plans for moving forward in the new year on a yearslong water supply project that hit several snags in early 2020, as well as the consolidation of its police department with Bayard’s. The Hurley project included drilling wells to provide water for its residents independent of mining company Freeport-McMoRan, which has been selling the town water since it became an incorporated municipality in 1956. Hurley was originally constructed as a company town for the smelter of the Chino Mines Company, now owned by Freeport-McMoRan. The mine has continued to extend its agreement to sell water to the town since Hurley embark ....