{"id":7631,"date":"2016-01-10T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/prescott-vs-pure-water-inc\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T17:50:28","slug":"prescott-vs-pure-water-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/prescott-vs-pure-water-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescott vs. Pure Water Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>This article is from a discussion of issues that will be taken up by the Prescott City Council this week<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>In other action, the council will:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Consider an amendment to a 2013 Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) consent order concerning discharges of fluoride from the city&#8217;s airport wastewater treatment plant.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed amendment would set milestones and timeframes for improvements needed to comply with the state-issued Aquifer Protection Permit, according to a city memo.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2015, the city requested a one-year extension to the ADEQ compliance requirement, while it awaited a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment on a lawsuit with Pure Wafer Inc., the company that had been identified as the discharger of the fluoride.<\/p>\n<p>(In its lawsuit, Pure Wafer contended that the city had earlier agreed to make the infrastructure improvements needed to deal with the discharges).<\/p>\n<p>ADEQ responded to the city&#8217;s extension request with a proposal that would give Prescott 60 days to draft and submit a plan for dealing with its exceedance of fluoride discharge levels (if the ruling is not in the city&#8217;s favor). Meanwhile, the city would be required to deal with the fluoride discharges through interim measures.<\/p>\n<p>Title of article: <a href=\"http:\/\/dcourier.com\/main.asp?SectionID=1&amp;SubSectionID=1&amp;ArticleID=153747\">Prescott Frontier Days seeks long-term lease with the city<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE FROM FAN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Pure Wafer Inc., headquartered in Swansea, South Wales, prepares reclaimed silicon test wafers for the semiconductor industry at a facility in Prescott, Arizona. In September 2013 they sued the city regarding a difference of interpretation over the amount of fluoride they discharge into the city\u2019s wastewater treatment system. &#8220;<span>Pure Wafer&#8217;s lawsuit maintains that the company (formerly Exsil, Inc.) entered a &#8216;bargain&#8217; with the city in 1997 under which the company would build a $45 million silicon wafer reclamation facility that would employ as many as 100 people&#8230; &#8216;Under that bargain Pure Wafer and the city understood, expected and agreed that Pure Wafer would be discharging into the city&#8217;s sewer system each day up to 195,000 gallons of effluent which would contain fluoride of up to 100 milligrams per liter,&#8217; the lawsuit states (<a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/pure-wafer-vs-city-of-prescott-lawsuit-may-require-outside-counsel\/\">The Daily Courier, 11-18-14<\/a>).&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>5-28-13: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/adeq-consent-order-requires-prescott-to-clear-up-water-fluoride-issue\/\">ADEQ consent order requires Prescott to clear up water fluoride issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7-19-13: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/az.pure-water.settlement.july2013.pdf\">Press release from Arizona Department of Environmental Quality<\/a>, \u201cPure Wafer, Inc., Agrees to $120,000 Settlement for Failure to have Air Quality Permit at Prescott Facility\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>7-20-13: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/prescott-adeq-fines-pure-wafer-120000-for-not-having-air-quality-permit\/\">ADEQ fines Pure Wafer $120,000 for not having air quality permit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11-22-13: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/pure-wafer-fluoride-lawsuit\/\">City attorney: Cost of outside legal counsel is confidential<\/a><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p>11-28-13: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/prescott-hires-outside-law-firm-to-fight-pure-wafer-lawsuit\/\">Prescott hires outside law firm to fight Pure Wafer lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4-17-14: Pure Wafer, Inc., Plaintiff v. City of Prescott et al., Defendants. <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/az.pure-water.vs_.prescott.4-17-14.pdf\">Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Permanent Injunction<\/a>. In the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Filed April 17, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>4-23-14: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/judge-rules-against-city-in-pure-wafer-lawsuit-will-cost-prescott-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars\/\">Judge rules against city in Pure Wafer lawsuit; will cost Prescott hundreds of thousands of dollars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11-18-14: <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoridealert.org\/news\/pure-wafer-vs-city-of-prescott-lawsuit-may-require-outside-counsel\/\">Pure Wafer vs. City of Prescott lawsuit may require outside counsel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is from a discussion of issues that will be taken up by the Prescott City Council this week In other action, the council will: \u2022 Consider an amendment to a 2013 Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) consent order concerning discharges of fluoride from the city&#8217;s airport wastewater treatment plant. 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